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 …
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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