Watch a trailer for Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, one of the year's most affecting love stories
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We were quite taken with Portrait Of A Lady On Fire at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, calling Céline Sciamma’s new film “rapturously romantic and sexy.” Set in France in 1760, the story follows an artist, Marianne (Noémie Merlant), who’s hired to paint a portrait of Héloïse, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat who’s soon to be married off to an interested suitor. The suitor needs the painting to get a sense of Héloïse’s looks, but Héloïse isn’t interested in being painted, meaning Marianne must compose her portrait in secret. Marianne gets close to her for the purpose of memorizing her face, but things get complicated when intimacy blossoms between the pair.
“Unfolding through stolen glimpses and increasingly loaded glances, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire is really a portrait of a mutual, slow-motion seduction,” reads our review, “and it seduces its audience just as gradually and effectively, pulling us into its old world with the beauty of its images and the quiet efficiency of its storytelling.”
Watch a new trailer for the film above ahead of its opening on December 6.
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Looks boring as fuck unless you like being aroused while watching paint dry.
I’m confused. Is it about a portrait depicting a lady who is on fire, or is it a portrait of a lady, which is then set on fire?Also, is the fire a literal combustion reaction, or is it the metaphorical “man, you’re really on fire today” kind?
Not to spoil the movie, but you only find out when she eats shoots and leaves the portrait.
I hate that book but I gave you a star for making me laugh out loud. Thank you.
So, a remake of Man on Fire?
if watching a chick get the au flambe treatment is what does it for you, maybe keep that one under wraps?
Also I’d just like to add KINJAAAAAAAAAAA! They’ve just changed the notifications page so that, apparently, it no longer indicates the unread notifications. You just have to, I guess, remember them?
yeah, wtf?
as someone who used to be conversational in french, but hasn’t spoken it in years, i can not handle watching a french language film. i don’t have enough of the language left anymore to actually understand what they are saying but i have enough that i pick up random words and phrases, which makes reading the english words hard- its deeply distracting.