Reel Talk: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
Dir. Céline Sciamma (2019)
Join us on August 29 for a special Weekend Essentials Reel Talk with Tom Knoblauch! Learn all about Sciamma, her visual storytelling, and how she actively challenges the existing canon.
Tom Knoblauch, Ph.D. is an author, internationally award-winning filmmaker, broadcaster, and film history lecturer. He writes cultural criticism at his Substack and is a co-host of the comedy podcast The Y2K Show. His 2025 book, "Building a Feminocentric Canon: Céline Sciamma and the Dawn of Post-Auteurism," analyzes Sciamma’s entire filmography as a model for a new vision of authorship and canonicity.
Film Synopsis
Summoned to an isolated seaside estate on a secret assignment, Marianne (Noémie Merlant) must find a way to paint a wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), who is resisting chattel marriage, by furtively observing her. What unfolds in exquisite tension is an exchange of sustained gazes in which the two women come to know each other’s gestures, expressions, and bodies with rapturous intimacy, ultimately forging a subversive creative collaboration as well as a delirious romance.
Dir. Céline Sciamma (2019)
Join us on August 29 for a special Weekend Essentials Reel Talk with Tom Knoblauch! Learn all about Sciamma, her visual storytelling, and how she actively challenges the existing canon.
Tom Knoblauch, Ph.D. is an author, internationally award-winning filmmaker, broadcaster, and film history lecturer. He writes cultural criticism at his Substack and is a co-host of the comedy podcast The Y2K Show. His 2025 book, "Building a Feminocentric Canon: Céline Sciamma and the Dawn of Post-Auteurism," analyzes Sciamma’s entire filmography as a model for a new vision of authorship and canonicity.
Film Synopsis
Summoned to an isolated seaside estate on a secret assignment, Marianne (Noémie Merlant) must find a way to paint a wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), who is resisting chattel marriage, by furtively observing her. What unfolds in exquisite tension is an exchange of sustained gazes in which the two women come to know each other’s gestures, expressions, and bodies with rapturous intimacy, ultimately forging a subversive creative collaboration as well as a delirious romance.
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