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Girlhood’ director Céline Sciamma returns with one of thebest reviewed films of the year and winner of the coveted Best Screenplay and QueerPalm awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE is an intimate and deeply affecting period drama about freedom, love and desire.
Marianne is a young painter in 18th Century France, commissioned to do a wedding portrait of Héloïse without her knowing. Marianne disguises herself as her companion to get closer to her subject – observing by day and secretly painting at night. Intimacy and attraction grow between the two women as they share Héloïse’s first and last moments of freedom. The portrait soon becomes a collaborative act and a testament to their love.
A Madman release, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE will release in cinemas on Boxing Day.
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