‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ in a Single Scene
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4 min readMar 5, 2020
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Each scene more beautiful than the last, Céline Sciamma’s directorial masterpiece is as carefully cropped as her dialogue-spare but affecting script.
It is impossible to pick the best shot in Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Each scene’s composition references the legacy of painting it employs as a central plot device. Colors, lighting, and location are carefully chosen and used as tools…
