Portrait of a Lady on Fire + discussion

Description

Céline Sciamma's sumptuously beautiful Cannes prize-winner is one of cinema's most compelling visions of the power of desire.

Set in late 18th century France, painter Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is commissioned by an affluent countess to paint the wedding portrait of her sheltered daughter Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) so she can be appraised by a suitor across the sea.

Completing the portrait in secret, observing the resistant Héloïse by day and painting her by night, the two women grow closer. Their intimacy and attraction begins to blossom into a profoundly charged romance.

Seductive, devastating and irresistibly beautiful, this period piece with a distinctly modern feminist sensibility sees Sciamma (Tomboy, Girlhood, Petite Maman) take her place as one of her generation's finest filmmakers.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Dr Jamie Hagen, Emma Campbell and Emma Gallen.

Dr Jamie Hagen is a Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics and is the Founding co-Director of the Centre for Gender in Politics.

Emma Campbell is a co-convenor for Alliance for Choice, an artist member of Array Collective, and a researcher at Ulster University.

Emma Gallen is an activist for Alliance for Choice.

Period	8 Mar 2022
Held at	Queen's Film Theatre, United Kingdom
Degree of Recognition	Regional