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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.
(R, 121 min.)
4:00 PM
Join us Saturday, November 16th (4p) in celebration of our LGBTQIA+ community for a very special presentation of Portrait of a Lady Fire (2019).
This screening is sponsored by Q - Image Magazine & The Glo Center. This screening is Free, tickets are available now at The Moxie box office.
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse’s first moments of freedom. Héloïse's portrait soon becomes a collaborative act of and testament to their love. [Metacritic]
Starring: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami
Director: Céline Sciamma
Languages: French, Italian
Genre(s): Drama, History, Romance
"It's a masterpiece."
— Chris Hewitt, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A superbly elegant, enigmatic drama ... I was on the edge of my seat."
— Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
"Céline Sciamma’s extraordinary fourth feature and a movie of body, heart, and mind."
— Ty Burr, Boston Globe
"Razor-sharp and shatteringly romantic ... as perfect a film as any to have premiered this year."
— David Ehrlich, IndieWire
"You've never seen another movie quite like this. In its quiet gaze, love becomes art."
— Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
"It’s the rare movie that can take something as ancient as myth and use it to break your heart anew."
— Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
"It’s a film that gets brilliantly to the truth of how and why we fall in love, and replicates that sensation — and the heartache that follows."
— Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic
"Portrait of a Lady on Fire is primarily a romance. But it’s also a film about the deeply personal process of creativity—the pain and joy of making one’s emotions and memories into a work of art."
— David Sims, The Atlantic
"Portrait of a Lady on Fire is enthralling on every level. In her hypnotic and haunting film, alive with humor, heartbreak and swooning sensuality, Sciamma has created nothing less than a timeless work of art."
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"It is one of the most one of the most gorgeous films you will ever see in your life. Every single frame of it is like a picture that you want to hang in your home and it is just devastatingly romantic and sad and sexy and beautiful."
— Christy Lemire, Breakfast All Day
"Sharply subverting the male gaze at every turn, Sciamma has created an unforgettable treatise on thwarted desire. It is so very easy to label a film incendiary, but Portrait of a Lady on Fire deserves the scalding honour. It will ignite every flame you might have."
— Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
"Assaying [Sciamma's] first period film, an exquisitely executed love story that's both formally adventurous and emotionally devastating, she sticks the landing like a UCLA gymnast in peak condition. It's so good you'll want to watch again in slow-motion immediately afterwards just to see how she does it."
— Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
"What makes the French masterpiece Portrait of a Lady on Fire — one of my favorite movies ever made, and the perfect Valentine’s Day date movie — so good is that it’s both a great romance and a great love story. The two bleed into each other so skillfully that you’ll almost miss where the romance begins and the love story ends."
— Todd VanDerWerff, Vox
