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By The18Thbrumaire (1) on 30 Dec 2019

Exquisite filmmaking from one of the best up and coming French directors of the decade…

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By Gugansb (1) on 28 Dec 2019

This movie itself a MOVING PAINTING!!! You won't regret watching it. A True Classic. It deserves this praises…

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By Uglyworldwide (1) on 07 Dec 2019

This is nothing but pure art. every scene feels like they just cut from a novel…

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By Karen Han (178) for Polygon (677) on 07 Dec 2019

The final shot of Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is overwhelming…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 07 Dec 2019

There’s almost no single moment in Portrait of a Lady on Fire that couldn’t be captured, mounted, and hung on a wall as high art…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 06 Dec 2019

Haenel, who also appeared in Sciamma’s debut film, Water Lilies, is mesmerizing, conjuring a full person using little more than stillness…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 05 Dec 2019

The prime mover is sexual tension, which grows inexorably as the women learn the contours of each other’s lives…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 05 Dec 2019

It’s the rare movie that can take something as ancient as myth and use it to break your heart anew…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 05 Dec 2019

This is less a chronicle of forbidden desire than an examination of how desire works…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 05 Dec 2019

Portrait of a Lady on Fire is enthralling on every level…

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By Jocelyn Noveck (253) for The Associated Press (882) on 05 Dec 2019

A film in which everything feels stunningly fresh, raw and new…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 04 Dec 2019

It’s a delicate drama that flourishes through the liberating power of art, where a hopeful yet consuming love affair sparks between two…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 04 Dec 2019

Portrait of a Lady on Fire is primarily a romance…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 04 Dec 2019

It also happens to be the best ending of a movie this year and the work of a filmmaker completely attuned to both her craft and the inner…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 02 Dec 2019

Just like the short time the lovers have together, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is minimal but perfect, without an image, a glance, or a…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 02 Dec 2019

For an instant, I heard the rumble of the coming Revolution, and wondered how Sciamma would conclude her engrossing movie…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Sep 2019

Sharply subverting the male gaze at every turn, Sciamma has created an unforgettable treatise on thwarted desire…

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By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2019

What's most stirring about Céline Sciamma's film is the lack of artifice in Héloïse and Marianne's feelings for one another…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 27 May 2019

It’s deeply romantic and also deeply thoughtful – an electric combination…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 27 May 2019

This radiantly sensual film ends on the perfect note, a rush of emotional intensity that’s wrapped in a secret, as hushed as the rustle of silk…

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