10 Outstandingly Beautiful Cinematic Single Frames

While every frame in this article can technically be said to be made of colour, Tarsem's The Fall takes this idea and makes an entire vivid masterpiece out of it. Contrast and bright palettes are the name of the game, and the film has them in spades, running the entire spectrum in rich detail, reflecting the precise mood, tone and dramatic juxtapositions of each scene.

It is then naturally quite difficult to pick a single stand-out image, but the blood curtain narrowly takes the prize. The red bandit (Lee Pace) reveals the murder of his counterpart, the blue bandit, swearing a blood oath at the base of a white sheet the height of a three-storey building saturated with blood, while his mismatched troupe of companions look on.

Even within this scene, it is difficult to pick a single image to focus on, but the bandit on one knee at the foot of the curtain with a hand on its hem, the blood seeping up the fabric, is the one. Symmetrical, colourful and emotionally weighty, with the curtain's false horizon heightening the surreal appeal, many directors go careers without producing an image of this magnitude.