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Name: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Director: Céline Sciamma
Genre: drama, romance
Released: 2019
Duration: 2 h 1 min
Rating: 8

Portrait of a Lady on Fire has an iRankMovies score of 87.7/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

Don't regret. Remember.

Release:2019

Runtime:2h 1m

Country:France

Director:Céline Sciamma

Language:French

Genre

DramaRomance

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Keywords

IslandFireBeachArranged MarriageClassical MusicPaintingPainterGreek Mythology

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8/10· 127K votes

Rotten Tomatoes97%

Metacritic95%

TMDb8.097/10· 3K votes

With 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8/10 on IMDb and 95/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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.

Cast of Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Noémie Merlant
as Marianne
Adèle Haenel
as Héloïse
Luàna Bajrami
as Sophie
Valeria Golino
as La Comtesse
Christel Baras
as La faiseuse d'ange
Armande Boulanger
as L'élève atelier
Guy Delamarche
as L'homme salon
Clément Bouyssou
as Le batelier

Portrait of a Lady on Fire facts

Original title: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Budget: $5.7M
Box office: $9.9M

Our take on Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Céline Sciamma's 2019 romance strands a painter on an isolated Brittany island to secretly portray a reluctant bride-to-be — and the two women fall into a charged, doomed love. Restrained, painterly and quietly incandescent, it's a study of looking, memory and desire. If its slow-burning intimacy and exquisite craft moved you, seek out lyrical romantic dramas and period love stories that smoulder in glances rather than declarations.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Céline Sciamma captures romantic passion through eighteenth-century arranged marriage complexity
•Fire metaphor and beach settings enhance intimacy and emotional resonance effectively
•Classical music accompanies sophisticated drama about forbidden female love beautifully

What the audience disliked

•Pacing becomes contemplative, potentially testing viewers seeking faster narrative movement
•Abortion subplot feels somewhat disconnected from primary romantic narrative focus