Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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Directed by: Céline Sciamma
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.
Reviews (5)
SWITCH. (Rated: 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 m...
Heloisa (Rated: 10)
The best LGBT movie ever. And that's on period luv.
Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots (Rated: 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 d...
tmdb92312096 (Rated: 9)
Undoubtedly worth a watch; who knew portraits were the Tinder of the 1700s.
beyondthecineramadome (Rated: 10)
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