Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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Good morning everyone.
My name is natalia Perez and I did the film analysis on portrait of a lady on fire.
This film is a French film and it takes place in France in the late 1800s.
The young painter Marianne is commissioned to do the painting
um the wedding portrait of alloys without her knowing Eloise is a reluctant bride
who has just left the convent after her sister's passing, leaving her to her fate.
The commission painter must observe her day by day painting her in secret.
She was Marianne was commissioned by Louise's mother
and she's also part of the cast. But these are the three main ones. Leading
Marianne
is played by Naomi Merlin. Eloise played by Adele Hanno. And
so if you played by luna Buhari, me,
hopefully I'm not completely butchering their names.
This film exposes limited characters and it's just
these women throughout
The almost two hours, two hours and one minute and there's like if anything,
10 minutes of male screen time
and that's fine by me.
I love the limited mail time
and it's written and directed by female um Celine Jicama. I love that too.
Producers, production companies, early films are they hold up films
Distribue by the Pyramid Films and released in 2019. The Canes Festival.
This film
portrayed or definitely displayed
the psychological concept of emotions, stressors and love
and the first one that I wanted to talk about was
the concept of emotions and specific to that was they,
the motion of anger
and dis consult it and dissatisfaction and just
those kind of feelings and how they can.
Um,
uh Project, project
project
and Louise projects herself in
for the most part as passive and unhappy. She rarely smiles.
And this specific scene
um
after
as as Marianne and Heloise get closer alloys allows
herself to be painted and poses for Marianne,
Marianne
um looks at the painting
and says, I can't make you smile, I feel I do. And then it vanishes.
Which then Eloise replies with
anger always comes to the form
and
Marianne replies with definitely with you.
And I feel like this is a scene that definitely depicts where
regardless of how hard
Marianne tries um
the anger and
the feeling of dissatisfaction is just,
it's just
almost oozing out of Eloise and how she sees her.
Um and how she's projecting herself,
Eloise seems to be very self aware of that as well.
In this scene,
I like to speak on it because it's the first time that we kind of
get it's towards the um it's before the last scene that I talked about,
but it's
the first time that we get kind of a glimpse of a smile
on Eloise's face is the first time that Marianne kind of tries to
kind of pull a different side of Eloise from her
and
as she tries to play a song on the
Oregon, but she fails to
nell and she says, you'll hear the Rest Milan is a city of music.
And once she says that you can see a smile kind of drop on her face. You can see that
how unhappy she is at the mention of what lies in her future.
The next psychological concept that I wanted to talk about
was the stressors that were apparent in Louise's life.
The passing of her sister
leaving the convent where she was happier
or at least freer
and
mary
and actually to marry a man she knows very little of
This is a conversation that Marianne and Heloise shared on the beach.
As
Marianne was brave enough to ask about
the passing of her sister.
And
Eloise mentions that there is a apology and she could be apologizing
for leaving
Eloise
to her fate of marrying
a man.
Um she knows very little of
Hey Louise.
Louise asked,
what do you know of my marriage
To which Marianne replies, you're 20 millionaires, gentlemen,
that's all.
Eloise replies with. That's all I know too.
See why it worries me.
And Marianne replies. You put it that way, yes.
It's the only way to put it. It's
I put it
that the way it is. She
says,
um you'd rather stay in the convent. It's life that has advantages.
There is liberty. You can see or hear music
and equality is a pleasant feeling.
This conversation
alone just
guides and shows how
where she's at in her life and how unhappy she is
with
the circumstances that man. But she's submissive to them.
Mm hmm The next psychological factor I want to
talk about was the mutual attraction and the proximity
Of these two women
Marianne was commissioned to paint her in secret initially. So that led to
the female gaze,
intimate looks and intimate
um, time shared together.
Um, and it
this film
definitely showed an interesting relationship
between the observed and the observer
and
it's portrayed in the scene that I spoke on earlier where she can't make her,
she can't seem to make her smile in the portrait.
It's not until that conversation has had where
you can see the equality of these two positions
and you can see the mutual attraction between these two women
that um,
this, the conversation allowed it to open the door for the love to grow.
And I just it's a beautiful scene
and I just love their intimate looks.
The 1700s is definitely a ton that didn't
recognize women as individualism and let alone like
um,
I don't know anything that
I don't know. Just anything that involves. So
there's a scene as well where um the housemaid Sophie needs, um,
she wants to get an abortion.
And this
film definitely
um depicts how
The 1700s,
I mean, not the 1700s,.
Um,
I don't know how long I've been saying the 17 hundreds, but the 18 hundreds,
um how
dictating and how moving it is for women and what roles
these women
play
injustice idol from factors
The director of this film and Selenski comma and she was born in November 12
companies, friends
and
her previous uh
films or tomboy girlhood, water lilies
and
Kama. Um
I grew up infatuated with cinema as an adolescent.
She became known for her true life films
portraying women as protagonists as they strive to find
their way.
And she often injects her experiences of loneliness,
femininity and desire into her films.
And she mentioned that she's aware of the male gaze
and growing up around heterosexuality and as a queer woman,
she has been moved by
um
the male gaze and has been excited by the male gaze. But this
this film caters to the female gaze and how intimate
and how just different that
that
that whole feeling and how that
of goals.
Um
Kama also wrote this film with the actress, Adele hanno, the women who plays
um
eloise
in mind
as they previously had worked together and
shared a long romantic love relationship.
In another interview,
she mentioned that she was able to have open conversations and
she was able to have open conversations she and Adele had about art, love and gaze
also inspiring the works of the film.
So you can see how
much love goes
all went into this film and how much detail and how much catering to
women. This film definitely
cared for
and I just,
I just love it overall
the cinematography is beautiful as well
and some of the reviews and critics,
it's a film that acknowledges the limits of reality,
even as Tacoma finds overriding
freedom and characters yearning. Making
as one character observes not
the leverage choice but the poets in telling the story.
It's when it also won the best screenplay in
2019 and it has a 4.8 in Brooklyn tomatoes.
Um, it's a tender and complex love story,
a slice of social commentary and kinds of life and work opportunities
historically available to women and generously shot period piece that heaven,
that's heaven to look at.
And I just completely agree with the Times um
review on that because
not only is it a beautiful love story,
um but it's
basically,
but just um romantically and just you can see
how much care this specific director took into writing and
portraying what she wrote.
Mm mm mm mm mm. He's a nice christmas.
Thank you all so much
and take care