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  2. Feb 14, 2020 · Céline Sciamma ’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a heart-shattering love story. Set in coastal Brittany in the 18th century, the film tracks the slow-burning romance between a portraitist,...

  3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (French: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, lit. 'Portrait of the Young Lady on Fire') is a 2019 French historical romantic drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma, starring Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel. Set in France in the late 18th century, the film tells the story of a lesbian sexual affair between ...

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    • It’S A Low-Budget Film
    • It Was Shot in 8K
    • Principal Photography Was Completed in 38 Days
    • The Title Alludes to Henry James
    • Artist Hélène Delmaire Painted The Portraits
    • Adèle Haenel Hated Posing
    • The Lights Were Set Up Outside All The Windows
    • There Is No Musical Score
    • Sciamma Wanted to Get Rid of The Muse
    • The Film Is Not A Love Story

    The film worked with a low budget at only €4.86 million, or $5.94 million. The lower budget initially posed a few obstacles for the cinematography, as the lighting technique used in the film required significant time and resources. The grips were limited with regards to where they could set up lighting equipment and stands, because the deserted cas...

    In an interview with IndieWire, Mathon said she and Sciama chose to shoot digitally “for the actual resonance it gave to the film, combining memories and period films. We were talking about re-inventing and enhancing our 18th century image to current realities.”Sciamma said 35mm felt like too timeless a choice, so they filmed in 8K instead, as they...

    Principal photography began in October 2018 and was completed 38 days later. Filming took place in Saint-Pierre-Quiberon in Brittany and a château in La Chapelle-Gauthier, Seine-et-Marne. RELATED: 10 Lesbian Dramas For Fans of Portrait of A Lady On Fire Also, while the exterior shots of the film are in Brittany, much of the action indoors occurs in...

    The film’s original title in French is Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, which literally translates to "portrait of the young girl on fire." It has been speculated that the literal translation of "the young girl" was changed to "a lady" for the English title of the film to evoke the Henry James novel, The Portrait of a Lady, in which James describ...

    The paintings and sketches seen in the film were done by artist Hélène Delmaire, whose hands are also featured in a few closeup painting shots. Delmaire said she painted 16 hours every day during production for three consecutive months, including weekends, modeling her painting on the scene blockings. RELATED: 10 Best Period Dramas To Stream On Ama...

    Delmaire mentioned in an interviewthat Adèle Haenel, who played Héloïse, only posed for photos and not the actual paintings. Haenel hated posing actually (to Delmaire's amusement), as she did not like being static and, as an actress, preferred to be moving around all the time. A few paintings from the film now hang in Sciamma’s house, Delmaire’s ho...

    Mathon needed tremendous control of light for the shots she envisioned. Limited by the historical monument they were filming in, she decided to light the interior of the building from outside the windows. Sciamma comments in an IndieWireinterview that “it felt like magic” filming inside, as “there was no light in the room, but it was so accurate.” ...

    One noticeable element of the film is the absence of a musical score in the background. One reason the film does not feature a musical score could be to put rhythm on the forefront instead. The “music” arises elsewhere -- in the movements of the bodies on screen and the camera. Especially as the film is composed mostly of sequence shots, there is a...

    One of Sciamma’s thematic goals for the film was to get rid of the trope of a muse, which she believes actually hides the participation of a woman in art and creation. In most narratives, the muse is typically a silent, passive womanwho provides inspiration merely because she is aesthetically beautiful. RELATED: Best Foreign-Language Films of 2019 ...

    Sciamma said it was her initial intention to shoot a love story, and to write a love story, she knew she must first show what it is like to fall in love. As the film goes deeper into the pleasure and exploration of love, though, it also begins to turn to the confusion and hesitation of such romance. Sciamma thus goes beyond a telling of a present r...

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  4. Mar 31, 2020 · Portrait of a Lady on Fire is the story of two young women in 18th century France. Héloïse is an aristocrat whose mother is trying to marry her off to a stranger in Milan. Marianne is an...

  5. Mar 4, 2020 · Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is, among other things, a story of profound female solidarity, but it almost never feels like it’s hat-tipping to modern-day gender politics or casting feminist...

  6. Mar 27, 2020 · Can Portrait of a Lady on Fire Save the world? Director Céline Sciamma and stars Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant debate the power of a lesbian period drama.

  7. Feb 19, 2020 · The narrative of the film is based on equality among the love story, because there is no gender domination. Embodying equality in a love dialogue could be a wake-up call for a lot of persons....