Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the 18th century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman who refuses to pose. The reluctant subject has recently returned home from a convent following her sister’s suicide and is now expected to replace her sister in marrying a titled aristocrat that she has never met. For his part, before agreeing to the substitute bride, the aristocrat requires a portrait of her be painted and brought to him.
"Portraying the commissioned painter as a rebel for her time, with glowing shots of the woman lounging nude before a roaring fireplace, smoking a clay pipe while her clothes dry, director Céline Sciamma’s interest clearly lies in the nuances of emotion and attraction, as well as in ways in which women who are brought into proximity without men, relate and bond” (Barbara Scharres; Robert Ebert .com).
Rated R. In French and Italian with English subtitles. 122 minutes.

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