Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

• Year: 2019
• Released: 14 Feb 2020
• Country: France
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award59 wins & 157 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8613070/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/portrait_of_a_lady_on_fire
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: French, Italian
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Runtime: 122 min
• Writer: Céline Sciamma
• Director: Céline Sciamma
• Cast: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami
• Keywords: woman director, lgbt, island, period drama, 18th century,

	8.1/10
	95/100
	97% – Critics
	92% – Audience

Portrait of a Lady on Fire Storyline

In 1760 France, Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit each other, attraction and intimacy grow as they share Héloïse’s first moments of freedom. Héloïse’s portrait soon becomes a collaborative act of and testament to their love.

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire Movie Reviews

Too artsy and slow….and the relationship, sadly, seemed unreal.

“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is not a film for everyone. After all, it’s about lesbianism in the 18th century and not everyone is excited about seeing such a picture. As for me, I applaud the lesbian subject matter….but I think the film itself left much to be desired.

The film clearly is intended as an ‘art film’. In other words, instead of telling a story in a normal way, it’s very, very slow and deliberate….too slow. Oddly, however, despite the glacial pacing, when it comes to the relationship between the two women is the opposite. They go from not even talking to each other to lovers…and you cannot help but think something is missing. There is simply little chemistry or joy between the pair.

Overall, the film could have been very good. Instead, it just looks nice but that’s really about all there is to it. Worth seeing? Perhaps…but far from a must-see.

beautiful

The first temptation is to define it as a beautiful film. Not doubts, it is a real beautiful film. In so profound sense than you can not explain , in fair way, this kind of beauty. An island, portrait behind wedding, love, dance, fires in different senses, memories and admirable cinematography. A film for feel it. Scene by scene , as a sort of. Oozing honey.

What Women Do When Men Aren’t Watching

When Noémie Merlant arrives to paint Adèle Haenel’s portrait so a prospective groom can look her over, Mlle. Merlant is informed she is the second portrait artist hired. Mlle. Haenel refused to pose. As time goes on, the two ladies develop a challenging lesbian relationship, and a regard for the house’s maid-of-all-work Luàna Bajrami, who initiates them into the local branch of la vecchia religione.

There are some very good parts to this movie, but it seems fairly erratic to me, with no visual consistency – when you’re doing a movie in which painting is a key point, that seems important to me, and given a look that wanders from 17th Century Flemish to 19th century Impressionism, with Mlle Merlant’s portrait work looking like mid-20th Century portraiture, I am dissatisfied with that. For almost the entire length, there are only women to be seen. There seems to be the implication that this is what women get up to when men are around, in nunneries and garden clubs and such, instead of being thrust into domesticity, worrying about dinner and the kiddies, and isn’t it terrible that women aren’t given choices.

Yes, it is. Judging by the IMDb rating (8.2 out of 10 on more than 15,000 votes) and Rotten Tomatoes rating of 98%, are we supposed to be impressed? Given such unanimity of opinion, can this be such a ground-breaking movie? Am I asking too much for a movie set in the 18th Century, concerning itself with a painter, to have the look of the movie – and of the paintings – reflect that?