Portrait Of A Lady On Fire [Criterion Collection] ( Blu-ray ) 06/23/20

Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until they together create a space in which it can briefly flourish, in this sumptuous eighteenth-century romance from Celine Sciamma, one of contemporary French cinema's most acclaimed auteurs. Summoned to an isolated seaside estate on a secret assignment, Marianne (Noemie Merlant) must find a way to paint a wedding portrait of Heloise (Adele 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 look at one another in a world without men.

CONDITION: NEW

Actors: Noemie Merlant, Adele Haenel, Luana Bajrami, Valeria Golino, Christel Baras
Directors: Celine Sciamma
Format: Blu-ray, Subtitled
Language: French
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
R
Restricted
Studio: The Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: June 23, 2020