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Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until they together create a space in which it can briefly flourish, in this sumptuous eighteenth-century romance from Céline Sciamma, one of contemporary French cinema’s most acclaimed auteurs. Summoned to an isolated seaside estate on a secret assignment, Marianne (Noémie Merlant) must find a way to paint a wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), who is resisting chattel marriage, by furtively observing her. What unfolds in exquisite tension is an exchange of sustained gazes in which the two women come to know each other’s gestures, expressions, and bodies with rapturous intimacy, ultimately forging a subversive creative collaboration as well as a delirious romance. Charged with a yearning that almost transcends time and space, Portrait of a Lady on Fire mines the emotional and artistic possibilities that emerge when women can freely live together and look at one another in a world without men.
Original Release
09/18/2019
US Release
12/06/2019
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Noemie Merlant | Marianne |
Adele Haenel | Héloïse |
Luàna Bajrami | Sophie |
Valeria Golino | La Comtesse |
Christel Baras | La faiseuse d'anges / La faiseuse d'ange |
Armande Boulanger | L'élève atelier |
Guy Delamarche | L'homme salon |
Clément Bouyssou | Le batelier / La batelier |
Michèle Clément | Une paysanne |
Cécile Morel | Une paysanne |
Directors
Cast
Name | Character |
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Noemie Merlant | Marianne |
Adele Haenel | Héloïse |
Luàna Bajrami | Sophie |
Valeria Golino | La Comtesse |
Christel Baras | La faiseuse d'anges / La faiseuse d'ange |
Armande Boulanger | L'élève atelier |
Guy Delamarche | L'homme salon |
Clément Bouyssou | Le batelier / La batelier |
Michèle Clément | Une paysanne |
Cécile Morel | Une paysanne |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Rémi Burah | Producer |
Véronique Cayla | Producer |
Bénédicte Couvreur | Producer |
Editors
Other Videos
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2020 | Golden Globe | Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language | Nominated |