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The beautiful thing about the research was that it didn’t feel cold or scholarly. I was moved all the time. I discovered this woman named Judith Leyster: she’s Dutch, she was a 17th-century painter. All of her work was attributed to her husband. I put an image of one of her paintings at the end of my script when I sent it out to get financed. It’s a self-portrait. She’s in front of the canvas and she has a brush in hand and she’s looking at us and she’s smiling so much you can see her teeth. I never saw a smile like that.

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It took me a long time to figure out. I wanted Marianne to see Héloïse in a painting and that there would be a secret within the painting. But what kind of secret? The obvious one in art history is the open door of a birdcage. When a birdcage is open or closed in a painting it tells us about the girl’s virginity. When there are animals, it’s sexual metaphors. Scott, A. O. (5 December 2019). " 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' Review: A Brush With Passion". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020 . Retrieved 14 July 2020. a b Vincendeau, Ginette (1 December 2022). "Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 12 December 2022 . Retrieved 12 December 2022. Portrait of a Lady on Fire". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. 2019. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019 . Retrieved 24 September 2020.

There’s very little music in Portrait but when you do use it, it’s for very emotional and overwhelming moments. It reminds me of that sublime scene in your film Girlhood, when all the girls dance to Rihanna’s Diamonds. Was it important for you to have two actors – Haenel and Merlant – who haven’t appeared in films together before and who people don’t associate together? Neglia, Matt (8 December 2019). "The 2019 Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) Nominations". NextBestPicture. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020 . Retrieved 9 December 2019. But really I’m being honest when I say I don’t watch films while making films because you know it’s contagious. There’s too much authority in what has been made before. I think you should invent the language of the film you’re making and feel strongly about your ideas and not look at the past in a way. I’m not romantic in the process of working. I’m really not.I assumed this love story wasn't going to have a happy ending given the confines of its era, but I want every reader to know that Portrait of a Lady on Fire just absolutely crushes its ending. You may expect it coming, in a general sense, but the resolution to this love story floored me. There are two consecutive scenes that each elicit different emotions. The first is a winsome feeling of being remembered, of having a sense of permanence after the fact, of a moment in time that will long be fondly recalled and celebrated for its fleeting perfection and lifelong significance. Then the next scene involves a payoff of great empathy that almost brought tears to my eyes. It delivers a long-desired payoff to a character's lifelong request, and the camera simply holds for over a minute while we watch the indescribable impression this woman is experiencing. It's so joyous, so heartfelt, and so luxuriously earned that I felt like my heart was going to burst. The fact that both of these emotional conclusions happen without a single word being uttered is even more impressive.

I found out there was an amazing moment in art history in the second part of the 18th century, just before the French Revolution, when there was a rise of a female artistic scene, because of the fashion for portraits. There were hundreds of women painters at that time. There’s a hypothesis that women actually invented self-portrait because… The 2019 Official Selection". Festival de Cannes. 18 April 2019. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019 . Retrieved 9 May 2019.

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