The Most Enthralling Movie of the Year
<em>Portrait of a Lady on Fire</em> is both an elegy for a doomed passion and a demonstration of the memorializing power of art.
by David Sims
Dec 04, 2019
2 minutes
When Marianne (played by Noémie Merlant), the heroine of Céline Sciamma’s , paints, the viewer can feel every dab on the canvas and hear every brushstroke as her workmanlike effort creates a graceful piece of art. After a while, Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), the woman Marianne is painting, sidles up to gaze at what she’s produced. “When do we know it’s finished?” Héloïse asks. “At one point, we
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