Céline Sciamma
After concluding her trilogy of coming-of-age films – composed of Water Lilies, Tomboy and Girlhood – Céline Sciamma has returned with a story about older, more mature women. While her younger heroines navigated the wild currents of sexual fluidity in the formative period of adolescence, painter Marianne (Noémie Merlant) and her subject Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) in Portrait of a Lady on Fire have already come out on the opposite shore, their identities solid, their desires sharp.
Sciamma: I wanted a film that would be like a romantic novel, and I
