Dir: Céline Sciamma
Cast: Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Noémie Merlant
With English subtitles

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Winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes, Portrait of a Lady on Fire stands as one of the finest LGBTQ+ films in recent years, further cementing Céline Sciamma as one of today’s most exciting filmmakers.

France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse’s first moments of freedom. Héloïse’s portrait soon becomes a collaborative act of and testament to their love.

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