{"id":15586,"date":"2023-12-30T18:33:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T18:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=15586"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:44:07","slug":"portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15587\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/portrait-238x350.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/portrait-238x350.jpeg 238w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/portrait-600x884.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/portrait.jpeg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #660084;\">PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2020 &#8211; 121&#8242; &#8211; Drama<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Written by:\u00a0C\u00e9line Sciamma.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0C\u00e9line Sciamma.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0No\u00e9mie Merlant,\u00a0Ad\u00e8le Haenel,\u00a0Lu\u00e0na Bajrami, Valeria Golino, Armande Boulanger, Christel Baras, Guy Delamarche,\u00a0Mich\u00e8le Cl\u00e9ment.<br \/>\nOfficial Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2019 (Winner Best Screenplay Award), Toronto International Film Festival 2019, San Sebastian\u00a0International Film Festival 2019, New York Film Festival 2019. 10 Cesar Awards Nominations. Nomination for Best International Feature Film Golden Globes 2020.<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA Neon release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><em>France,1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of H\u00e9lo\u00efse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing H\u00e9lo\u00efse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share H\u00e9lo\u00efse\u2019s first moments of freedom. H\u00e9lo\u00efse&#8217;s portrait soon becomes a collaborative act of and testament to their love. <\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/neonrated.com\/films\/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE | 2020 &#8211; 121&#8242; &#8211; Drama Written by:\u00a0C\u00e9line Sciamma. Directed by:\u00a0C\u00e9line Sciamma. Starring:\u00a0No\u00e9mie Merlant,\u00a0Ad\u00e8le Haenel,\u00a0Lu\u00e0na Bajrami, Valeria Golino, Armande Boulanger, Christel Baras, Guy Delamarche,\u00a0Mich\u00e8le Cl\u00e9ment. Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2019 (Winner Best Screenplay Award), Toronto International Film Festival 2019, San Sebastian\u00a0International Film Festival 2019, New York Film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,121,43,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drama","category-films-art","category-history","category-women-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18188,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions\/18188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}