'It is a lesbian imaginaire. Welcome. You’re welcome to discover it.' Our interview with Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma
“The jump scare is patriarchy. Cinema can do that!” writer-director Céline Sciamma told Jezebel in September, describing the movie she was in town to promote,. It was a nutshell encapsulation of the interrogation and obliterating of cinematic convention that her film pulls off so elegantly.
I think the title of your film is deceptively rich with meaning. Beyond the visual representations of a literal lady on fire, I suspect that metaphorically what you’re getting at is the idea of burning down the idea of how women should be or have been represented in film and/or art. The idea of an all-female utopia is one this movie explores, and there are very few reference points for that in film. Did you use any existent ones likeNo. I wanted to look at a possible love. Of course, it’s an impossible love story, but we are not telling about the obstacles. There’s no conflict. They’re not thinking about running away together. The old culture wants you to do that: Where is the taboo? Where is the impossibility? You used the word “utopia,” and cinema offers you that.
I knew there was going to be this abortion scene for this particular character, the servant—well, I didn’t want her to be “the servant” character. She’s never in the frame as an accessory. I wanted her to be a character, a subject, so she has this journey [to] an abortion. I’ve seen very few abortion scenes in cinema. I mean, the 2007 Palme d’Or winner [] by Cristian Mungiu was a movie about abortion.
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