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Portrait of a Lady on Fire(Movie, 2019)

Original title: "Portrait de la jeune fille en feu" (French/FR)
FSK: 12+ years
| 2h | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love
Portrait of a Lady on FireRating: 4.1/5 (with 10351,035 votes)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (French: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, lit. 'Portrait of the Young Lady on Fire') is a 2019 French historical romantic drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma, starring Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel. Set in France in the late 18th century, the film tells the story of a sexual affair between two young women: an aristocrat and a painter commissioned to paint her portrait. It marked Haenel's final film role prior to her retirement from the French film industry in 2023. Portrait of a Lady on Fire was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The film won the Queer Palm at Cannes, becoming the first film directed by a woman to win the award. Sciamma also won the award for Best Screenplay at Cannes. The film was theatrically released in France on 18 September 2019. It was nominated for Independent Spirit Awards, Critics' Choice Awards and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top five foreign language films of 2019. The film was one of ... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Portrait of a Lady on Fire

European Film Award for Best Screenwriter European University Film Award Dorian Award for Lgbtq Film of The Year Queer Palm European Film Award for Best Actress European Film Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Screenwriter European University Film Award

About Portrait of a Lady on Fire

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

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Additional Information

Production country: France
Plays in: Paris
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: French (FR), Italian (IT)
Translated into 32 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 10/31/2019 (World premiere: 06/17/2019)
Director: Céline Sciamma
Screenwriter: Céline Sciamma
Film Editor: Julien Lacheray
Director of Photography: Claire Mathon
Composer: Para One
Costume designer: Dorothée Guiraud
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Retrato de uma Jovem em Chamas"
"火吻女孩的肖像"
"燃烧的女子肖像"
"Porträt einer jungen Frau in Flammen"
"浴火的少女画像"
"타오르는 여인의 초상"
"Lēdijas portrets ugunī"
"燃烧女子的画像"
"Portrett av en kvinne i flammer"
"Portret kobiety w ogniu"
"Porträtt av en kvinna i brand"
"ภาพฝันของฉันคือเธอ"
"Alev Almış Bir Genç Kızın Portresi"
"POALOF"
Budget: 5,740,000 USD
Revenue: 9,923,127 USD (= 173%)

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