PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

SIGHT & SOUND 100 | #30 

CÉLINE SCIAMMA | FRANCE | 2019 | 122 MIN | R | FRENCH, ITALIAN 

An impassioned union grows between a woman trapped within the confines of an arranged marriage and the artist tasked with painting her wedding portraits in Céline Sciamma’s Queer Palm award winning film.

Cast: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami

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Part of the Philadelphia Film Society’s FILM ESSENTIALS series.

With Film Essentials at the Philadelphia Film Center, PFS is giving audiences the chance to experience some of cinema’s greatest treasures as they were meant to be seen: on the biggest screen in Center City!