In Cinemas: Portrait Of A Lady On Fire

What a very elegant and mysterious costume drama! And one with a feminist perspective about the rapprochement of two women! The so-called Bechtel test is passed easily, because the painter and her model in Céline Sciamma's work of art meet in a secluded castle. Completely without men. Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) is the beautiful daughter of a noble family and she is recovering from the death of her sister. Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is the name of the artist who has been commissioned to secretly portray Heloise. For her future husband from Milan. The promised husband of the dead sister... I had last seen The Death Of Louis XIV, an almost eccentric costume drama from France. And who doesn't remember the enormously bloody La Reine Margot with Isabelle Adjani? Or Gerard Depardieu as Cyrano de Bergerac? Or Le Roi Dance with its excessive baroque pictures? Reason enough for a list!