Portrait of a Lady on Fire

December. 06,2019      R
Rating:
8.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Noémie Merlant as  Marianne
Adèle Haenel as  Héloïse
Luàna Bajrami as  Sophie
Valeria Golino as  The Countess
Christel Baras as  The Angel Maker
Armande Boulanger as  The Workshop Student
Guy Delamarche as  The Lounge Man
Clément Bouyssou as  The Boatman
Michèle Clément as  Peasant Woman (uncredited)
Cécile Morel as  Peasant Woman (uncredited)

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Reviews

SanEat
2019/12/06

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

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Janae Milner
2019/12/07

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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Verity Robins
2019/12/08

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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Dana
2019/12/09

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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