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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

2019 · TMDB 8.1 · Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

Directed by Céline Sciamma

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.

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Céline Sciamma's period romance about a painter and her subject, shot on 35mm for its painterly, candlelit intimacy.

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