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4 years, 6 months ago

In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, A Secret Love and Four More Shots Please!, rooting for romance and desire

At first glance, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Chris Bolan’s Netflix documentary A Secret Love, and season 2 of Nupur Asthana’s Amazon Prime Video India Original show Four More Shots Please! Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is set in the late 18th century, and revolves around Marianne, a painter, and her muse Héloïse. Read on …

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4 years, 9 months ago

In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma levels the playing field between artist and muse – Firstpost

Firstpost

The relationship between male artist and female muse has been as deeply unequal as it is romanticised. *** “The concept of ‘muse’ is an invention to make women passive.”— Adèle Haenel The relationship between the male artist and the female muse has always been romanticised. *** “Love is creating something together — a language and a piece of art.” — …

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4 years, 10 months ago

Portrait of a Lady on Fire review: A gorgeous study of two women in love, unbothered by the restrictions of men

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As Héloïse’s pace quickens, the hood flies back to reveal blonde …

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4 years, 10 months ago

Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Consent,” says Sciamma, “is sexy.” open image in gallery Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant in …

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5 years ago

The Irishman, Marriage Story, Pain and Glory, Parasite, Uncut Gems: 15 best films of 2019

Firstpost

Between what’s no longer made by major studios and what’s starting to be made for streaming, cinema is in a state of flux. Though, what complicates her reunion in Changchun is the culturally-ingrained practice of her family refusing to tell her Nai Nai that she has only months to live; “It’s not the cancer that kills them,” Billi’s mother tells …

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5 years, 1 month ago

The women of ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ blaze a new path

Associated Press

NEW YORK — What’s inside the frame and what’s outside of it are electrifyingly synonymous in French filmmaker Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.” It’s a sumptuous period romance set in 18th-century France about women making art free, for a moment, of traditional male frameworks. When “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” was playing earlier this fall at …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Review: Blazingly intelligent ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ is one of 2019’s great love stories

LA Times

An exquisitely realized story about forbidden love, forgotten art and the implicit power of a woman’s gaze, Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” shares its title with a painting by an 18th century Parisian named Marianne. Some in the audience may watch Héloïse and be reminded of the ghostly Carlotta Valdes in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”; later, as she …

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5 years, 6 months ago

How pop culture embraced sexuality ‘without labels’

BBC

How pop culture embraced sexuality ‘without labels’ Alamy More and more people are refusing to define themselves as either gay or straight – and from pop music to sitcoms, such fluidity is becoming increasingly visible, writes Hugh Montgomery It may be superficially obsessed with virtual realities, but the best episodes of hit Netflix anthology series Black Mirror are ultimately more …

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5 years, 7 months ago

Céline Sciamma takes the Cannes Film Festival by storm with ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’