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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

121 min ·R
DramaRomance
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On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

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rm Apr 11, 2026

OKAY first of all — that poster. A woman in a dark navy dress standing alone in what appears to be a field at night, with FLAMES literally burning at her feet, and the film's title written in this gorgeous handwritten script floating across her body like a love letter. The darkness, the fire, the solitude — it's screaming "I am about to destroy you emotionally" and honestly? CORRECT. Céline Sciamma directed the most achingly beautiful queer love story of our generation. Every single frame is a painting. The way these two women look at each other? That's not acting, that's revolution. The male gaze doesn't exist here and I have never felt so FREE.