12th Love & Pride Film Festival – Bringing Untold Stories to Light (Golden Village)
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
Rating
R21 Homosexual Theme
Language
French with English subtitles
Cast
Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel
Synopsis
• Winner for the 2019 Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay and Queer Palm Award
France, 1770. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day, to paint her secretly.