Our Continental collection expands this season in pink and green — a palette long at home on the European table: rosé against striped bistro awnings, radishes with butter on white porcelain. It feels both fresh and familiar, equal parts garden and apéritif.

Two films come to mind that carry the pairing with particular precision: Paris, Texas and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Though separated by decades and continents, both directors use color as structure.

Color, after all, has always been cinematic.

In The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Jacques Demy builds entire streets out of it — storefronts, dresses, and interiors tuned to the same chromatic way of seeing. In Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders uses the palette more sparingly: a pink neon motel sign against the desert dusk, green fluorescent light inside a roadside bar.