Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Céline Sciamma's "Petite Maman" runs a mere 72 minutes and yet packs in a lifetime of enchantment. It is, she says, "a pocket film you can take home."
The film, which opened in theaters Friday (4/22), is the French writer-director's follow-up to her 2019 award-winning love story "Portrait...
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...
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...