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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

2019
121 min
Drama Romance History

Plot Summary

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.

8.1
IMDb Rating
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8.1
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Technical Details

121 min
Runtime
2019-09-18
Release Date
Movie
Content Type
2019
Year
Genres
Drama Romance History

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User Reviews

Heloisa

Heloisa

10.0/10
Recent

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

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Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

10.0/10
Recent

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 Merlant) is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), a young woman who...

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SWITCH.

SWITCH.

10.0/10
Recent

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 intensely honest in its passions. This is a film that aches, that longs, that dances in ecstasy and raise...

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