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  1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire: A Very Considered Masterpiece 🔥

    Wow, well this is a masterpiece. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) was written and directed by Céline Sciamma and launched in autumn of 2019. In 2022, it was voted the 30th greatest film of all time in a Sight & Sound poll.

    Rightly so, but it annoys us it took so long to finally watch it. Well worth the wait as its lead actors, Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel, are outstanding and this is a love story for the ages.

    The Female Gaze in Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    Set in the 18th century, we find the painter Marianne (Noémie Merlant) heading to an island off Brittany. She’s commissioned to paint a portrait of gentry woman Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), whose Countess mother (Valeria Golino) needs to marry off into a rich Italian nobleman’s life.

    The portrait must be very good so it convinces the man to take Héloïse’s hand in marriage.

    However, the problem is Héloïse has refused to pose for any portraits. She’s depressed her life is simply about being married off to some rich bloke. To get around the refusal, Marianne is hired to surreptitiously spend time with Héloïse, memorise her features, and do the painting.

    In time, the pair bond and Héloïse even agrees to pose for the portrait.

    She and Marianne begin to fall in love, with the big problem being it’s 18th century France and not socially acceptable. When Héloïse’s mother must briefly leave the island, they’re able to spend five days together. But all with the knowledge they’ll be parted from each other forever once the Countess returns.

    Of which, much has been written elsewhere online about the female gaze. The two lead characters have agency, but are ultimately restrained by tedious social conventions (sadly, to devastating effect).

    We’re not adding in any scenes to this review, but we’re going to going to highlight how stunning the film is thanks to cinematography by Claire Mathon.

    Now, we’re sure some types watched the film in 2019 and found it “boring” or whatever as there aren’t car chases and explosions. But in terms of a slow burner tragic love story, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a modern classic.

    Everything about it is perfect from start to finish, which is rare in any form of culture.

    Alongside the brilliant performances and excellent script, the little details make it stand out. We didn’t notice until after the film, but there’s almost no music at all. There’s a segment from a single written for the production called La Jeune Fille en Feu, which is a capella. Plus, twice Summer from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is used in the film (the second time to devastating effect).

    The frequent peace and quiet lends itself to the conclusion of the narrative. Thinking of other modern classics, Portrait of a Lady on Fire’s ending is as emotionally devastating as the finale to Charlotte Well’s Aftersun (2022). Wherever we go online to look at feedback from film fans, the discussion point is all about director Céline Sciamma’s ending.

    It’s an incredible demonstration of Adèle Haenel’s acting abilities and is a closing scene for the ages. Sadly, Haenel retired from the film industry in 2023 as a protest against ingrained sexism and patriarchy. She now works in theatre.

    And that does, abruptly, cut back to the core nature of what the film is about. How ingrained sexism in society prevents two people from leading the lives they want to lead.

    Very possibly the best film of the 2010s, then, and one to watch in total concertation.

    The Production of Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    Off its €4.48 million budget the film made €8.48 million at the global box office. However, it was a big critical hit at Cannes Film Festival and was picked as one of three films by the French Ministry of Culture for entry to the 2020 Academy Awards.

    However, it was Ladj Ly’s adaptation of Les Miserables that was ultimately submitted.

    Of course, the Oscars isn’t about what is the best film in any given year, but if there was any justice Portrait of a Lady on Fire would’ve swept the board and won everything. The Women Film Critics Circle awarded it a bunch of gongs, though, and it won the Queer Palm award at Cannes.

    Plus, our favourite film critic (Dr. Mark Kermode) had this to say.

    The film was shot across October and November 2018 with everything wrapped up in 38 days. The commune of Saint-Pierre-Quiberon in Brittany was used for external shots, with a château in La Chapelle-Gauthier in Seine-et-Marne for the indoor shots.

    Saint-Pierre-Quibero is classically French in every single way. Very peaceful looking and sleepy, in that quaint French way where it feels like no one actually lives there (or they’re just hiding from you).

    Anyway, seven years after its release and the film is now considered an outright classic. Certainly, it’s one of the best films we’ve seen this century and we can highly recommend you indulge in its luxuries.

    #AdèleHaenel #Brittany #CélineSciamma #Cinema #femaleGaze #Feminism #Films #France #LGTBQ #Love #NoémieMerlant #PortraitOfALadyOnFire #queer #Romance #Sexism
  2. LA DIRECTORA DE CINE FRANCESA CELINE SCIAMMA HA REALIZADO DOS NUEVOS MONTAJES DE SUS OBRAS CUMBRE.
    Pocas veces un cineasta decide volver sobre obras ya consolidadas dentro de su trayectoria para modificarlas de forma sustancial. Sin embargo, eso es exactamente lo que ha hecho la directora francesa Céline Sciamma, que ha aprovechado una importante retrospectiva dedicada a su carrera en París para...
    nuevoimagenesdeactualidad.blog
    #cine #cinema #celinesciamma

  3. I was actually using that site check out a list of fifty films recommended by Céline Sciamma (who has directed two films I considered among the best of this century).

    I was especially happy that her list included Gremlins.

    Her list in full:

    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The Abyss
    Akira
    Back to the Future
    The Band Wagon
    Belle de jour
    Big
    Blade Runner
    Bound
    The Bridges of Madison County
    Carrie
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Crash
    Cruising
    Deep End
    The Deer Hunter
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    Eyes Wide Shut
    Gattaca
    Grave of the fireflies
    Gremlins
    Groundhog Day
    Heavenly Creatures
    Heaven's Gate
    La Jetée
    Made in Britain
    Man on the Moon
    Morte a Venezia
    My Own Private Idaho
    Opening Night
    Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
    Phantom of the Paradise
    The Piano
    Point Break
    Showgirls
    Singin' in the Rain
    Some Like It Hot
    Soylent Green
    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    Teorema
    Thelma and Louise
    The Thing
    Tootsie
    Total Recall
    Totoro
    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    Unbreakable
    Vertigo
    Victor Victoria
    Zerkalo

    lacinetek.com/fr-en/lists/celi

    #films #movies #CélineSciamma #CelineSciamma #Gremlins

  4. I was actually using that site check out a list of fifty films recommended by Céline Sciamma (who has directed two films I considered among the best of this century).

    I was especially happy that her list included Gremlins.

    Her list in full:

    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The Abyss
    Akira
    Back to the Future
    The Band Wagon
    Belle de jour
    Big
    Blade Runner
    Bound
    The Bridges of Madison County
    Carrie
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Crash
    Cruising
    Deep End
    The Deer Hunter
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    Eyes Wide Shut
    Gattaca
    Grave of the fireflies
    Gremlins
    Groundhog Day
    Heavenly Creatures
    Heaven's Gate
    La Jetée
    Made in Britain
    Man on the Moon
    Morte a Venezia
    My Own Private Idaho
    Opening Night
    Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
    Phantom of the Paradise
    The Piano
    Point Break
    Showgirls
    Singin' in the Rain
    Some Like It Hot
    Soylent Green
    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    Teorema
    Thelma and Louise
    The Thing
    Tootsie
    Total Recall
    Totoro
    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    Unbreakable
    Vertigo
    Victor Victoria
    Zerkalo

    lacinetek.com/fr-en/lists/celi

    #films #movies #CélineSciamma #CelineSciamma #Gremlins

  5. I was actually using that site check out a list of fifty films recommended by Céline Sciamma (who has directed two films I considered among the best of this century).

    I was especially happy that her list included Gremlins.

    Her list in full:

    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The Abyss
    Akira
    Back to the Future
    The Band Wagon
    Belle de jour
    Big
    Blade Runner
    Bound
    The Bridges of Madison County
    Carrie
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Crash
    Cruising
    Deep End
    The Deer Hunter
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    Eyes Wide Shut
    Gattaca
    Grave of the fireflies
    Gremlins
    Groundhog Day
    Heavenly Creatures
    Heaven's Gate
    La Jetée
    Made in Britain
    Man on the Moon
    Morte a Venezia
    My Own Private Idaho
    Opening Night
    Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
    Phantom of the Paradise
    The Piano
    Point Break
    Showgirls
    Singin' in the Rain
    Some Like It Hot
    Soylent Green
    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    Teorema
    Thelma and Louise
    The Thing
    Tootsie
    Total Recall
    Totoro
    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    Unbreakable
    Vertigo
    Victor Victoria
    Zerkalo

    lacinetek.com/fr-en/lists/celi

    #films #movies #CélineSciamma #CelineSciamma #Gremlins

  6. I was actually using that site check out a list of fifty films recommended by Céline Sciamma (who has directed two films I considered among the best of this century).

    I was especially happy that her list included Gremlins.

    Her list in full:

    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The Abyss
    Akira
    Back to the Future
    The Band Wagon
    Belle de jour
    Big
    Blade Runner
    Bound
    The Bridges of Madison County
    Carrie
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Crash
    Cruising
    Deep End
    The Deer Hunter
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    Eyes Wide Shut
    Gattaca
    Grave of the fireflies
    Gremlins
    Groundhog Day
    Heavenly Creatures
    Heaven's Gate
    La Jetée
    Made in Britain
    Man on the Moon
    Morte a Venezia
    My Own Private Idaho
    Opening Night
    Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
    Phantom of the Paradise
    The Piano
    Point Break
    Showgirls
    Singin' in the Rain
    Some Like It Hot
    Soylent Green
    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    Teorema
    Thelma and Louise
    The Thing
    Tootsie
    Total Recall
    Totoro
    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    Unbreakable
    Vertigo
    Victor Victoria
    Zerkalo

    lacinetek.com/fr-en/lists/celi

    #films #movies #CélineSciamma #CelineSciamma #Gremlins

  7. I was actually using that site check out a list of fifty films recommended by Céline Sciamma (who has directed two films I considered among the best of this century).

    I was especially happy that her list included Gremlins.

    Her list in full:

    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The Abyss
    Akira
    Back to the Future
    The Band Wagon
    Belle de jour
    Big
    Blade Runner
    Bound
    The Bridges of Madison County
    Carrie
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Crash
    Cruising
    Deep End
    The Deer Hunter
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    Eyes Wide Shut
    Gattaca
    Grave of the fireflies
    Gremlins
    Groundhog Day
    Heavenly Creatures
    Heaven's Gate
    La Jetée
    Made in Britain
    Man on the Moon
    Morte a Venezia
    My Own Private Idaho
    Opening Night
    Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
    Phantom of the Paradise
    The Piano
    Point Break
    Showgirls
    Singin' in the Rain
    Some Like It Hot
    Soylent Green
    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    Teorema
    Thelma and Louise
    The Thing
    Tootsie
    Total Recall
    Totoro
    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    Unbreakable
    Vertigo
    Victor Victoria
    Zerkalo

    lacinetek.com/fr-en/lists/celi

    #films #movies #CélineSciamma #CelineSciamma #Gremlins

  8. Bei der #ARD gibt es nun »Portrait einer jungen Frau in Flammen« (2019) von #CélineSciamma bis 27. April.

    Ich empfehle ja, den als Double-Feature zusammen mit »The Lighthouse« (2019) von Robert Eggers zu gucken. Als Kontrast zum Thema weibliches und männliches Begehren, Erkennen, Besitzen- bzw. Verdrängen-Wollen usw.

    Ergänzen sich sehr fein … find ich.

    ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDov?

  9. Ich habe eine @letterboxd.social Liste für das neue #WolfgangMSchmitt YouTube-Format #DerFilmkompass erstellt. Jede Woche wird ein neuer sehenswerter Film eingetragen. Mit dabei sind bereits Meisterwerke wie #WongKarWai's #ChungkingExpress oder #CélineSciamma's #PortraitOfALadyOnFire. boxd.it/zVMPm

  10. Ich habe eine @letterboxd.social Liste für das neue #WolfgangMSchmitt YouTube-Format #DerFilmkompass erstellt. Jede Woche wird ein neuer sehenswerter Film eingetragen. Mit dabei sind bereits Meisterwerke wie #WongKarWai's #ChungkingExpress oder #CélineSciamma's #PortraitOfALadyOnFire. boxd.it/zVMPm

  11. Ich habe eine @letterboxd.social Liste für das neue #WolfgangMSchmitt YouTube-Format #DerFilmkompass erstellt. Jede Woche wird ein neuer sehenswerter Film eingetragen. Mit dabei sind bereits Meisterwerke wie #WongKarWai's #ChungkingExpress oder #CélineSciamma's #PortraitOfALadyOnFire. boxd.it/zVMPm

  12. TOMBOY (2011)
    Cèline Sciamma, dopo il brillante esordio "Naissance des pieuvres", torna a raccontare delle problematiche che interessano le persone LGBTQ+, questa volta esponendo il complesso "problema" dell'identità di genere...
    vaevedi.it/2011/11/tomboy-2011

    #UnoCinema #CèlineSciamma #Tomboy #Lgbt #transgender

  13. RITRATTO DELLA GIOVANE IN FIAMME (2019)
    Adèle Haenel ci dona una performance devastante, la migliore della sua carriera. Si avverte un coinvolgimento personale nel dolore e nella passione che esprime nella sua personaggia Héloïse. Forse perché ha avuto in passato una relazione sentimentale molto importante con la regista? La certezza è che Céline Sciamma abbia firmato il suo capolavoro...

    #CélineSciamma #Ritrattodellagiovaneinfiamme #AdèleHaenel #cinema #UnoCinema

  14. RITRATTO DELLA GIOVANE IN FIAMME (2019)
    Adèle Haenel ci dona una performance devastante, la migliore della sua carriera. Si avverte un coinvolgimento personale nel dolore e nella passione che esprime nella sua personaggia Héloïse. Forse perché ha avuto in passato una relazione sentimentale molto importante con la regista? La certezza è che Céline Sciamma abbia firmato il suo capolavoro...

    #CélineSciamma #Ritrattodellagiovaneinfiamme #AdèleHaenel #cinema #UnoCinema

  15. RITRATTO DELLA GIOVANE IN FIAMME (2019)
    Adèle Haenel ci dona una performance devastante, la migliore della sua carriera. Si avverte un coinvolgimento personale nel dolore e nella passione che esprime nella sua personaggia Héloïse. Forse perché ha avuto in passato una relazione sentimentale molto importante con la regista? La certezza è che Céline Sciamma abbia firmato il suo capolavoro... vaevedi.it/2020/05/ritratto-de

    #CélineSciamma #Ritrattodellagiovaneinfiamme #AdèleHaenel #cinema #UnoCinema