Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
RECTOR(S): Céline Sciamma COUNTRY: France YEAR: 2019 LANGUAGE(S): French, Italian SUBTITLES: German RUNNING TIME: 120 min
SECTION: Previews at Cinecittà 2019
SCREENINGS
Monday, 07.10., 8.00 pm, Cinecittà
SYNOPSIS
In PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE, the director Céline Sciamma tells the tale of a love affair between a painter and her model in the late 18th century. The images she uses could themselves be paintings. Sciamma puts the female gaze in the foreground, creating a powerful picture of lesbian desire and depicting the situation of women at the time. The multi-faceted screenplay was awarded a prize at Cannes.
France, 1770. The Paris-based painter Marianne travels to a remote island in Brittany. She has been commissioned to paint the portrait of the young lady Héloïse, who has just left a convent school and is due to be married. She refuses to sit for the portrait because she does not want to marry. Marianne spends the days with Héloïse, observing her and painting her from memory in the evening. An irresistible attraction slowly grows from the penetrating glances between them …
CÉLINE SCIAMMA
Céline Sciammia was born in Pontoise in 1978. She studied French literature at the University of Paris/Nanterre and film with a focus on screenwriting at the filmschool La Fémis. Her first feature-length film, Water Lilies, which Sciammia wrote the script for herself, premiered in 2007 and the Festival de Cannes chose it for the section Un Certain Regard. Her new film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire was shown in the competition of the Cannes Film Festival and won an Award for Best Script.
FILMOGRAPHY
Water Lilies (2007), Tomboy (2011), Girlhood (2014), Being Seventeen (2016), My Life as a Courgette(2016, Drehbuch), Portrait of a Young Lady in Flames (2019)
SCRIPT: Céline Sciamma PRODUCER: Bénédicte Couvreur, Véronique Cayla CAMERA: Claire Mathon EDITOR: Julien Lacheray MUSIC: Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, Arthur Simonini CAST: Noémie Merlant, Adéle Haenel , Valeria Golino, Luana Bajrami
PRODUCTION: Bénédicte Couvreur, Véronique Cayla, Lilies Films, ARTE France, Hold Up Films WORLD SALES: MK2 S.A GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR: Alamode Film