Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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French | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu |
Literally | Portrait of the Young Lady on Fire |
Directed by | Céline Sciamma |
Written by | Céline Sciamma |
Produced by | Bénédicte Couvreur |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Claire Mathon |
Edited by | Julien Lacheray |
Music by |
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Production companies |
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Distributed by | Pyramide Films |
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Running time | 120 minutes[1] |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | €4.86 million[2] |
Box office | $10 million[3][4] |
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (French: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, lit. 'Portrait of the Young Lady on Fire') is a 2019 French historical romantic drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma, starring Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel. Set in France in the late 18th century, the film tells the story of a lesbian sexual affair between two young women: an aristocrat and a painter commissioned to paint her portrait. It marked Haenel's final film role prior to her retirement from the French film industry in 2023.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.[5][6] The film won the Queer Palm at Cannes, becoming the first film directed by a woman to win the award.[7] Sciamma also won the award for Best Screenplay at Cannes.[1][8][9] The film was theatrically released in France on 18 September 2019.[10]
It was nominated for Independent Spirit Awards, Critics' Choice Awards and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top five foreign language films of 2019. The film was one of three shortlisted by the French Ministry of Culture to be France's submission to the 92nd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.[11][12]
Portrait of a Lady on Fire was voted the 30th greatest film of all time in the Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll.[13][14][15] It has also been considered to be one of the best films of 2019 and of all time.[16][17][18]
Plot
[edit]At the end of the eighteenth century, Marianne, a painter, is teaching an art class in France. One of her female students enquires about a painting of hers, which Marianne calls Portrait de la jeune fille en feu.
Years previously, Marianne arrives on a distant island in Brittany. She has been commissioned to paint a portrait of a young woman of the gentry named Héloïse, who is to be married off to a Milanese nobleman. Héloïse's mother, the Countess, informs Marianne that her daughter has previously refused to pose for portraits as she does not want to be married; she had been living in a convent before the suicide of her older sister necessitated her return and her betrothal. Marianne acts as Héloïse's hired companion to be able to paint her in secret and accompanies her on daily walks along the rugged coastline to memorize Héloïse's features.
Marianne finishes the portrait but finds herself unable to betray Héloïse's trust and reveals her true reason for arriving. After Héloïse criticises the painting, which does not seem to portray her true nature, Marianne destroys the work. Marianne explains her actions to the Countess by saying that she can create a better painting. As the Countess is getting ready to fire Marianne, Héloïse says that she will pose for Marianne. The Countess is shocked to hear this and gives Marianne five days to complete the new portrait while she is away on the mainland.
Marianne is haunted throughout the house by visions of Héloïse in a wedding dress. One evening, they read the story of Orpheus and Eurydice and debate the true reason why Orpheus turns around to look at his wife, causing her to be returned to the underworld. Later, the two go to a bonfire gathering where women sing, during which Héloïse's dress briefly catches fire.
The next day, Marianne and Héloïse share their first kiss and have sex later that night. The pair spend the next few days together, during which their sexual relationship grows stronger, and they help Sophie, the housemaid who is pregnant, to get an abortion. With their affair about to be cut short by the ensuing return of the Countess, Marianne sketches a drawing of Héloïse to remember her by, and Héloïse asks Marianne to draw a nude sketch of herself on page 28 of her book.
The Countess approves of the now completed portrait, and the next morning, Marianne bids farewell. As she is about to leave the house, she hears Héloïse say, "Turn around." She turns and sees Héloïse in her wedding dress.
In the present, Marianne reveals that she saw Héloïse twice more. The first was in the form of a portrait at an art exhibition, in which Héloïse, with a child beside her, is portrayed holding a book and surreptitiously revealing the edge of page 28. The second was at a concert in Milan, where she notices Héloïse among the patrons seated in the balcony across the theater from her. Unobserved, Marianne watches Héloïse cry and smile while listening to the orchestra playing the Presto from "Summer" in Vivaldi's Four Seasons, the music that Marianne had played for her on a harpsichord years before.
Cast
[edit]- Noémie Merlant as Marianne
- Adèle Haenel as Héloïse
- Luàna Bajrami as Sophie
- Valeria Golino as The Countess
Production
[edit]Principal photography began in October 2018[19] and was completed after 38 days.[20] Filming took place in Saint-Pierre-Quiberon in Brittany and a château in La Chapelle-Gauthier, Seine-et-Marne.[19][21] The film was produced by Lilies Films, Arte France Cinéma, and Hold Up Films.[22][23]
The paintings and sketches in the film were made by artist Hélène Delmaire. She painted for 16 hours every day during the course of filming, basing her painting on the blocking of the scenes. Her hands were also featured in the film.[24] To mark the release of the film in France, Delmaire's paintings from Portrait of a Lady on Fire were exhibited at the Galerie Joseph in Paris from 20 to 22 September 2019.[25]
Soundtrack
[edit]Sciamma decided to do without a conventional score.[26][27] Instead, the soundtrack consists of an original single, La Jeune Fille en Feu (lit. 'The Young Lady on Fire'), by composers Para One and Arthur Simonini. The song—performed by Sequenza 9.3, with Catherine Simonpiétri conducting[citation needed]—is scored for female choir a cappella and rhythmic clapping. According to Para One, although he and Simonini researched eighteenth century period music, they nonetheless recommended to Sciamma "a modern sound" inspired by György Ligeti's Requiem.[26] Sciamma provided the lyrics: the (repeated) Latin phrase 'Non possunt fugere' and coda 'Nos resurgemus'—roughly translated as 'They cannot escape' and 'We rise', respectively.
In a review of the song for Slate, Matthew Dessum writes, "The parsimonious use of music in the rest of the film makes the [singing of La Jeune Fille en Feu during the] bonfire scene completely overwhelming for characters and audience alike, so intense that it is almost unbearable. The music is beautiful, it is transporting, it is rapturous".[26] Writing in Paste, Ellen Johnson concurred: "It's utterly shocking to hear the strange chant after more than an hour of almost no music at all, but that's what makes it so timely ... [it's] a skin-tingling experience."[27]
The film features Vivaldi's 3rd Movement ("Summer") Presto from "The Four Seasons" album by Italian Baroque orchestra La Serenissima.[28][29]
Release
[edit]On 22 August 2018, film distributor mk2 began the sale of international rights to the film, with Pyramide Films acquiring the distribution rights for France.[30] On 10 February 2019, Curzon Artificial Eye acquired the rights for the United Kingdom, Karma Films did so for Spain, Cinéart for Benelux, and Folkets Bio for Sweden.[31][32] A few days after its premiere at Cannes, Neon and Hulu acquired North American distribution rights in a heated auction that also saw offers from Sony Pictures Classics and Netflix.[33][34][35]
Portrait of a Lady on Fire was released in France on 18 September 2019.[10] The film premiered theatrically in the United States as a limited release on 6 December 2019, followed by a wide release on 14 February 2020.[36] It was released in the United Kingdom on 28 February 2020.[37]
Critical response
[edit]Portrait of a Lady on Fire was the subject of broad acclaim. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 98% based on 322 reviews from critics, with an average rating of 9/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A singularly rich period piece, Portrait of a Lady on Fire finds stirring, thought-provoking drama within a powerfully acted romance."[38] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 95 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating "universal acclaim",[39] and has been designated a Metacritic "Must See" movie. It is the second best reviewed film of 2019.[40][41]
A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote that Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a "subtle and thrilling love story, at once unsentimental in its realistic assessment of women's circumstances", describing the unfolding of Marianne and Héloïse's relationship as "less a chronicle of forbidden desire than an examination of how desire works" and "the dangerous, irresistible power of looking".[42] Mark Kermode from The Observer/The Guardian gave the film five stars and said it is "an intellectually erotic study of power and passion in which observed becomes observer, authored becomes author, returning time and again to a central question: 'If you look at me, who do I look at?', and described the unwanted pregnancy subplot as "confronting but also depicting a taboo subject and its representation, refusing to look away, finding strength in sorority."[43] In his review for Variety, Peter Debruge said about Sciamma as director and screenwriter: "Though this gorgeous, slow-burn lesbian romance works strongly enough on a surface level, one can hardly ignore the fact, as true then as it is now, that the world looks different when seen through a woman's eyes", describing the film as "rigorously scripted", and her approach "looking past surfaces in an attempt to capture deeper emotion".[44]
For The New Yorker, writer Rachel Syme said Portrait of a Lady on Fire thoroughly examines "the entanglements between artistic creation and burgeoning love, between memory and ambition and freedom. The film is about the erotic, electric connection between women when they find their desire for creative experience fulfilled in each other, but it is equally about the powers of art to validate, preserve, and console after a romance is over".[45]
The film was voted the 30th greatest film of all time in the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022, the highest of films released in the 2010s.[13][14][15]
Accolades
[edit]Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref |
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Cannes Film Festival | 25 May 2019 | Palme d'Or | Céline Sciamma | Nominated | [1][8] |
Best Screenplay Award | Won | ||||
Queer Palm | Won | [46] | |||
British Independent Film Awards | 1 December 2019 | Best International Independent Film | Céline Sciamma, Véronique Cayla, Bénédicte Couvreur | Nominated | [47][48] |
Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival | 1 December 2019 | Pink Dragon Audience Award | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Won | [49][50] |
European Film Awards | 7 December 2019 | Best Director | Céline Sciamma | Nominated | [51][52] [53][54] |
Best Actress | Noémie Merlant | Nominated | |||
Adèle Haenel | Nominated | ||||
Best Screenwriter | Céline Sciamma | Won | |||
European University Film Award | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Won | |||
New York Film Critics Online | 7 December 2019 | Foreign Language | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Won | [55] |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association | 8 December 2019 | Best Cinematography | Claire Mathon | Won | [56] |
Toronto Film Critics Association | 8 December 2019 | Best Foreign Language Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Runner-up | [57] |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association | 8 December 2019 | Best Foreign Language Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | [58] |
Women Film Critics Circle | 9 December 2019 | Best Movie by a Woman | Céline Sciamma | Runner-up | [59] |
Best Woman Storyteller | Runner-up | ||||
Best Movie About Women | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Won | |||
Best Foreign Film By or About Women | Won | ||||
Karen Morley Award | Nominated | ||||
Best Screen Couple | Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel[a] | Won | |||
Chicago Film Critics Association | 14 December 2019 | Best Cinematography | Claire Mathon | Nominated | [60][61] |
Best Costume Design | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | |||
Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | ||||
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association | 14 December 2019 | Best Foreign Language Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 5th place | [62] |
Boston Society of Film Critics | 15 December 2019 | Best Picture | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Runner-up | [63][64] |
Best Foreign Language Film | Runner-up | ||||
Best Cinematography | Claire Mathon | Won | |||
St. Louis Film Critics Association | 15 December 2019 | Best Foreign Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | [65] |
IndieWire Critics Poll | 16 December 2019 | Best Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 5th place | [66] |
Best Director | Céline Sciamma | 4th place | |||
Best Screenplay | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 10th place | |||
Best Actress | Noémie Merlant | 13th place | |||
Adèle Haenel | 10th place | ||||
Best Supporting Actress | 13th place | ||||
Best Cinematography | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 3rd place | |||
Best Foreign Film | 3rd place | ||||
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle | 16 December 2019 | Best Foreign Language Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | [67] |
Seattle Film Critics Society | 16 December 2019 | Best Foreign Language Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | [68] |
Best Cinematography | Claire Mathon | Nominated | |||
Florida Film Critics Circle | 23 December 2019 | Best Picture | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Won | [69][70] |
Best Director | Céline Sciamma | Won | |||
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | ||||
Best Cinematography | Claire Mathon | Runner-up | |||
Best Foreign Language Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Won | |||
National Society of Film Critics | 4 January 2020 | Best Cinematography | Claire Mathon | Won | [71] |
Golden Globe Awards | 5 January 2020 | Best Foreign Language Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | [72] |
Austin Film Critics Association | 6 January 2020 | Best Supporting Actress | Adèle Haenel | Nominated | [73][74] |
Best Foreign-Language Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | |||
Online Film Critics Society | 6 January 2020 | Best Picture | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 6th place | [75][76] |
Best Director | Céline Sciamma | Nominated | |||
Best Cinematography | Claire Mathon | Nominated | |||
Best Film Not in the English Language | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | |||
New York Film Critics Circle Awards | 7 January 2020 | Best Cinematography | Claire Mathon | Won | [77] |
National Board of Review | 8 January 2020 | Top Five Foreign Language Films | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Won | [78] |
Dorian Awards | 8 January 2020 | Film of the Year | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | [79][80] |
Director of the Year | Céline Sciamma | Nominated | |||
LGBTQ Film of the Year | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Won | |||
Foreign Language Film of the Year | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | |||
Screenplay of the Year | Céline Sciamma | Nominated | |||
Visually Striking Film of the Year | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | |||
Georgia Film Critics Association | 10 January 2020 | Best Cinematography | Claire Mathon | Nominated | [81][82] |
Best Foreign Language Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | |||
Critics' Choice Awards | 12 January 2020 | Best Foreign Language Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | [83][84] |
Lumières Award | 27 January 2020 | Best Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | [85][86] |
Best Director | Céline Sciamma | Nominated | |||
Best Actress | Noémie Merlant | Won | |||
Best Cinematography | Claire Mathon | Won | |||
London Film Critics Circle | 30 January 2020 | Film of the Year | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | [87][88] |
Foreign-Language Film of the Year | Won | ||||
British Academy Film Awards | 2 February 2020 | Best Film Not in the English Language | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | [89][90] |
Satellite Awards | 7 February 2020 | Best Foreign Language Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | [91] |
Film Independent Spirit Awards | 8 February 2020 | Best International Film | Céline Sciamma | Nominated | [92][93] |
César Awards | 28 February 2020 | Best Film | Bénédicte Couvreur and Céline Sciamma | Nominated | [94][95] |
Best Director | Céline Sciamma | Nominated | |||
Best Actress | Adèle Haenel | Nominated | |||
Noémie Merlant | Nominated | ||||
Most Promising Actress | Luàna Bajrami | Nominated | |||
Best Original Screenplay | Céline Sciamma | Nominated | |||
Best Cinematography | Claire Mathon | Won | |||
Best Sound | Julien Sicart, Valérie de Loof and Daniel Sobrino | Nominated | |||
Best Costume Design | Dorothée Guiraud | Nominated | |||
Best Production Design | Thomas Grézaud | Nominated | |||
GLAAD Media Award | 19 March 2020 | Outstanding Film – Limited Release | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Nominated | [96] |
Nastro d'Argento | 6 July 2020 | Best Supporting Actress | Valeria Golino | Won | [97][98] |
Dublin Film Critics' Circle | 18 December 2020 | Best Film | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Won | [99][100] |
Robert Awards | 6 February 2021 | Best Non-English-language Feature | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Won | [101][102] |
Home media
[edit]The DVD and Blu-ray for Zone 2 was released by Pyramide Video on 18 February 2020.[103][104] The film was released as VOD on Hulu on 27 March 2020.[105] The DVD for Region 1 and Blu-ray for Region A was released by The Criterion Collection on 23 June 2020.[106][107][108]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Tied with Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu for Hustlers.
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Further reading
[edit]- Abraham, Raphael (13 February 2020). "Céline Sciamma on defying convention with the all-female Portrait of a Lady on Fire". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020.
- Bianco, Marcie (27 February 2020). "In "Portrait of a Lady on Fire," a feminist politics of love". Women's Media Center.
- Clements, Sara (13 February 2020). "'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' Star Noémie Merlant Discusses #MeToo and Playing a Woman Outside the Patriarchy". Exclaim!.
- Fuller, Graham (28 February 2020). "Portrait of a Lady on Fire review – love unshackled". The Arts Desk.
- Giorgis, Hannah (11 December 2019). "How Portrait of a Lady on Fire Subverts the Artist-Muse Relationship". The Atlantic.
- Grady, Constance (31 March 2020). "The devastating detail hiding in the French grammar of Portrait of a Lady on Fire". Vox.
- Handler, Rachel (14 February 2020). "The Women Behind Portrait of a Lady on Fire Believe Their Movie Can Save the World". Vulture.
- Harris, Elizabeth A. (13 February 2020). "How 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' Sees Power in Two Women in Love". The New York Times.
- Laffly, Tomris (21 February 2020). "'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' Cinematographer, Costume Designer on the 'Painterly' 18th-Century Look". Variety.
- Scateni, Serena (26 February 2020). "How Portrait of a Lady on Fire celebrates the female gaze". BFI.
- Spies-Gans, Paris A. (11 May 2020). ""Don't Regret. Remember": Frictions of History and Gender in Céline Sciamma's "Portrait of a Lady on Fire"". Los Angeles Review of Books.
- Spivack, Elana (26 March 2020). "The Two-Pronged Genius of "Portrait of a Lady on Fire's" Abortion Scene". Bitch.
- Tapponi, Róisín (28 February 2020). "It's about time film began representing the lesbian gaze". The Guardian.
External links
[edit]- Portrait of a Lady on Fire at Pyramide Films (in French)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire at MK2 Films
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019 Festival de Cannes Press Kit). Lilies Films, 17 pp (in English)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire at IMDb
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire at Rotten Tomatoes
- Portrait de la jeune fille en feu at Lumiere
- Portrait de la jeune fille en feu at UniFrance
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Daring to See an essay by Ela Bittencourt at the Criterion Collection
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