This film's cinematography can be summed up in 4 words
Graduated neutral density filters
shareI don't now what that means.
I do remember a French movie called "Day for Night" which referred to dark filters making daytime look like night time. This movie's nighttime scenes in and around the noodle shop looked like they were shot in the daytime with filters trying to make it look like night time.
I did like the color of the desert scenes.