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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

DramaRomance

8.109/10

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121 min

Release Date: 2019-09-06

Overview - On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Production Companies

Lilies FilmsARTE France CinémaHold Up Films

Overview - On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

User Reviews

SWITCH.

SWITCH.

10/10

As the credits began to roll on ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’, I was practically incapable of moving or speaking. Every time I didn’t think the film could possibly get any better, Céline Sciamma elevated it to even greater, more incomprehensible heights, culminating in one of the most extraordinary moments in 21st-century cinema. This is a rare and precious film, breathtaking in its craft and inten...

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Heloisa

Heloisa

10/10

The best LGBT movie ever. And that's on period luv.

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Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

10/10

Céline Sciamma, writer and director of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” calls her period film a “manifesto on the male gaze.” This is the most accurate, elegant description of her story of a romance between two French women in the late 1700s. This is an impeccably detailed, beautifully acted, refined drama with a strong feminist angle that’s as stirring as it is thought-provoking. Marianne (Noémie...

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tmdb92312096

9/10

Undoubtedly worth a watch; who knew portraits were the Tinder of the 1700s.

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beyondthecineramadome

10/10

Full review: <a>https://www.tinakakadelis.com/beyond-the-cinerama-dome/2021/12/28/paint-me-like-one-of-your-french-girls-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-review<a> Celine Sciamma’s fourth feature film, _Portrait of a Lady on Fire_, is a triumph. Few romance movies capture the totality of love, loss, and remembrance in the way Sciamma does in this film. The story is simple: Marianne (Noémie Merlant) h...

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