A female portraitist must surreptitiously paint a bride-to-be who is being pressured into an arranged marriage in Céline Sciamma’s visually sumptuous film
This is not the ideal time to write about “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” since it won’t go into full national distribution until mid-February. But the film is starting a limited run to qualify for Oscar consideration, you’ll be hearing lots about it, and it’s just too good to ignore over the course of the next two months. Here, then, is something between a preview and a review, with more to come at the later date.
The most striking thing about Céline Sciamma’s fourth feature—in French with English subtitles—is its sumptuousness....
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