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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Criterion Collection)

Array (2019)

715515247511

8.0

122,625

Drama | Romance

France | French | Color | 02:02

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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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	Noémie Merlant	Marianne
	Adele Haenel	Héloïse
	Luàna Bajrami	Sophie
	Valeria Golino	La Comtesse
	Christel Baras	La faiseuse d'ange
	Armande Boulanger	L'élève atelier
	Guy Delamarche	L'homme salon
	Clément Bouyssou	Le batelier
	Michèle Clément	Une paysanne

Crew View all

Director	Céline Sciamma
Writer	Céline Sciamma
Producer	Rémi Burah, Véronique Cayla, Bénédicte Couvreur, Olivier Père
Musician	Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, Arthur Simonini
Photography	Claire Mathon

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Edition details

Edition	Special
Packaging	Keep Case
Nr Discs	1
Audio Tracks	DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 [French]
Subtitles	English
Distributor	The Criterion Collection
Layers	Single side, Dual layer
Regions	Region A

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Index	2702
Added Date	May 21, 2024 18:34:22
Modified Date	May 21, 2024 18:37:00

Notes

Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until together they create a space in which it can briefly flourish, in this sumptuous eighteenth-century romance from Céline Sciamma, one of contemporary French cinema’s most acclaimed auteurs. Summoned to an isolated seaside estate on a secret assignment, Marianne (Noémie Merlant) must find a way to paint a wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), who is resisting chattel marriage, by furtively observing her. What unfolds in exquisite tension is an exchange of sustained gazes in which the two women come to know each other’s gestures, expressions, and bodies with rapturous intimacy, ultimately forging a subversive creative collaboration as well as a delirious romance. Charged with a yearning that almost transcends time and space, Portrait of a Lady on Fire mines the emotional and artistic possibilities that emerge when women can freely live together and see one another in a world without men.

New 4K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
New conversation between director Céline Sciamma and film critic Dana Stevens
New interviews with actors Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant
Interview with cinematographer Claire Mathon from the 2019 Cannes Film Festival
Interview from 2019 with artist Hélène Delmaire on creating the paintings for the film
PLUS: An essay by film critic Ela Bittencourt
New cover by Hélène Delmaire