Directed by Céline Sciamma

2019 - Rated R

“Your presence is made of fleeting moments that may lack truth."

Céline Sciamma made her grandest romantic gesture to date with Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a period drama that mines extraordinary feeling from perfect restraint. In it, Noémie Merlant plays Marianne, an artist hired to paint the portrait of a young woman (Adèle Haenel) being married off to an Italian nobleman. Yet as the two women slowly form a friendship, that friendship gives way to a brief but passionate love affair—and some of the decade’s most astonishing filmmaking.