PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

| 2020 – 121′ – Drama
Written by: Céline Sciamma.
Directed by: Céline Sciamma.
Starring: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino, Armande Boulanger, Christel Baras, Guy Delamarche, Michèle Clément.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2019 (Winner Best Screenplay Award), Toronto International Film Festival 2019, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2019, New York Film Festival 2019. 10 Cesar Awards Nominations. Nomination for Best International Feature Film Golden Globes 2020.
In French with English subtitles.
A Neon release. |

France,1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse’s first moments of freedom. Héloïse’s portrait soon becomes a collaborative act of and testament to their love.  

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