Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

2019 16+ France

8.0 121 min. Selin Sk'iamma

This story happened in 1770 on an island in Brittany, France. The young artist Marianna received a very unusual offer - she needs to paint a portrait of the daughter of the owner of an estate on the coast named Eloise. They want to marry her off to a groom from Milan, who needs the painting to see his bride. What is so unusual about this offer? The girl flatly refuses to be painted by anyone, because she does not want to get married at all. Eloise brought out the former artist so that he did not finish the work, so Marianne was offered to just spend time with the girl, and then draw her from memory. But the more time they spend with each other, the closer they become... Read more The director of the project is Celine Siamma, whose credits include "Water Lilies" (2007) and "Gallows" (2011). The main roles in the film were performed by Noémi Merlan ("Hearticide" (2018), "Kuriosa" (2019)) and Adele Enel ("Devils" (2002), "The House of Tolerance" (2010), "Unknown" (2016)). The first showing of the picture happened on May 19, 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival, France. Film critics on the Metacritic website gave the film a score of 95/100, and on Rotten tomatoes it has 97% positive reviews (121/125).