Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

1770. Marianne is a painter, commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse resists her destiny as a wife by refusing to pose. Marianne has to paint her in secret. Introduced to her as a lady-in-waiting, she watches her.

Keywords

  • Adèle Haenel
  • Ann Sirot’s favourite films
  • Awarded Queer Movies
  • Best Movies By Queer Directors
  • Cannes: En compétition
  • Cinéart: 50 Years of Great Cinema
  • Céline Sciamma
  • European Film Awards
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Film by the Sea
  • Film Festival Oostende
  • Film Festival Oostende (home)
  • French Drama
  • Golden Globes
  • Impossible Love
  • Lesbian Visibility Week
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Love Story
  • Our Favorite Queer Romances
  • Our Greatest Love Stories
  • Painting in Cinema
  • Portraits of empowered women
  • Premios Goya
  • Queer Romance
  • San Sebastian Film Festival
  • TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival
  • Tim Mielants’ favorite films
  • Top 2021
  • Top 22, Most Watched Films
  • Women's Rights
  • costume film
  • queer

Actors

  • Adèle Haenel
  • Armande Boulanger
  • Luàna Bajrami
  • Valeria Golino
  • Noémie Merlant
  • Christelle Baras

Director

  • Céline Sciamma

Drama


1h 59min


-12

FR


NL

France
2019
1770. Marianne is a painter, secretly commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent.

1770. Marianne is a painter, secretly commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent.


1770. Marianne is a painter, commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse resists her destiny as a wife by refusing to pose. Marianne has to paint her in secret. Introduced to her as a lady-in-waiting, she watches her.

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Cast & Crew