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 …
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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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 …
Film Critic Céline Sciamma has been on the red carpet at Cannes before. She won the festival’s screenplay prize Saturday night for her glowingly received fourth feature, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” which follows an 18th century French painter named Marianne, who falls in love with her latest subject, Héloïse. Within a few days, the film will leave the …