Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Hello brosefs, For my last post of the semester, I decided to watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) , recommended to me by Lukas. Danke Lukas! I wouldn't call this movie a cult classic, but is a very critically acclaimed French indie film, so I was excited to check it out. The plot of the film follows a woman painter (Marianne) in the late 18th century who is commissioned to paint a portrait of a young woman on an island (Heloise), prepping for her marriage to a man from Milan that she has never met. Before Marianne meets Heloise, she talks with the woman's mother and maid, who separately reveal that Heloise's older sister committed suicide shortly before at the same prospect of marrying a stranger, and that Heloise is staunchly against getting married. One painter had been hired to paint Heloise's portrait to send to her betrothed prior to Marianne, but Heloise had refused to show her face, and the painting was unsuccessful, which Marianne sees and burns after she ...
