Drinks & Movie Night 🍿 Portrait of a Lady on Fire

🌈PRIDE MONTH Portrait of a Lady on Fire – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔

🎬 Date & Time: Friday, June 19th, Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Le Balzac, 1 Rue Balzac, Paris 8
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.00 – €11.50 https://www.cinemabalzac.com/film/270303/

France, 1770. A painter is sent to an isolated island to capture the likeness of a reluctant bride. Héloïse won’t pose, so Marianne is hired to act as her companion by day and paint her from memory by night. What begins as a hidden assignment becomes an intense study of glances and stolen moments, as the artist finds herself captivated by the woman she is meant to document.

Watch the trailer with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-fQPTwma9o

Queer French Film Series-Program Note
Notes on the History of French Queer Cinema: https://nostalgiaandliquor.substack.com/p/queer-french-cinema-a-historical

The history of French queer cinema is rich and diverse. During June 2026 in Paris—Pride Month—Lost in Frenchlation presents a series of films dedicated to French queer culture and lives. The series showcases a range of films from leading queer French-speaking filmmakers. Time-honored filmmakers such as Céline Sciamma, Christophe Honoré, Alain Guiraudie, Robin Campbillo, Julia Ducournau and Xavier Dolan are included in the program along with a new generation of French queer filmmakers such as Anna Cazenave Cambet and Hafsia Herzi. Through dramas and comedies, their films explore lesbian relationships, trans lives, “coming-out,” AIDS, and the pleasures of being queer.

*The Queer French Film Series is funded, in part, by the City University of New York’s Research Foundation.

Bio
David A. Gerstner is Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York. In 2024, he was awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is the author of Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship (2023).