PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
OUT 1 APRIL (DVD) CERT M / 122 MINS
DIRECTOR Céline Sciamma
CAST Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Valeria Golino
PLOT Circa 1770 on a French island: A female painter (Merlant) is commissioned by a countess (Golino) to secretly create a wedding portrait of her daughter (Haenel), while pretending to be her companion. As the daughter and painter spend time together, desire blooms.
“HE CHOOSES THE memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.” Marianne (Merlant) is interpreting the Greek myth ‘Orpheus And Eurydice’, which Héloïse (Haenel) is reading aloud to Marianne and Sophie (Luàna Bajrami). The three young women are sitting in the candlelit kitchen of
