Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, MEGolden Globe Nominee, Best Foreign Film. France, 1770. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride-to-be, and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day, to paint her secretly. Seeing—really seeing—is perhaps the […]