Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019
What's inside the frame and what's outside of it are electrifyingly synonymous in French filmmaker Céline Sciamma's "Portrait of a Lady on Fire."
It's a sumptuous period romance set in 18th-century France about women making art free, for a moment, of traditional male frameworks. And the...

Wednesday, May. 22, 2019
Since her shimmering, shattering period romance "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" premiered to rapturous acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, its director Céline Sciamma has had some time to consider the passionate response.
"I think it's because it's a love story," Sciamma said in an...