Drama · Romance
French (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)
2019 · Directed by Céline Sciamma · 121 min
Brittany, 1770. A painter is sent to a windswept island house to create a wedding portrait of a young woman who has no wish to be painted. The film is a quiet, intense study of two people learning to look at each other.
Why it matters in cinema history
A landmark of twenty-first-century art cinema, it reshaped the costume romance by making women the makers and the subjects, and it became a reference point for debates on the female gaze.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a film about attention: who looks, how long, and what each look asks of the person being looked at.
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