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PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU

By Céline SCIAMMA

Drama - Completed 2019

Céline Sciamma (WATER LILIES, Cannes 2007 Un Certain Regard; TOMBOY, Berlin 2011 Jury Prize; GIRLHOOD, Cannes 2014 Directors’ Fortnight Opening film, MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI) reunites with Award-winning actress Adèle Haenel for an intimate and deeply moving period drama.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Director(s)
- Céline SCIAMMA
- Writer(s)
- Céline SCIAMMA
- Cast
- Adèle HAENEL, Noémie MERLANT, Valeria GOLINO
- Producer(s)
- Bénédicte COUVREUR (Lilies Films)
- Synopsis
- Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young lady who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day and secretly paints her at night.
  Intimacy and attraction grow between the two women as they share Héloïse’s first and last moments of freedom, all whilst Marianne paints the portrait that will end it all.