Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Héloïse will not sit for a marriage portrait, so Marianne watches her and paints from memory. Sciamma builds the film as a sequence of looks: who is allowed to see, and who looks back. The Brittany coast stays cold and close. The trailer from NEON keeps the fire, the page of music, and the fact that the sitting is also an agreement about time. Very little is explained. The painting is the record.