Saw this for the 1st time last night and then watched it again earlier today. This might be my best movie of 2019. It is captivating in terms of the visuals, the performance of the main actors, and the storyline. And yes, it is heartbreaking. But I don’t think the ending was sad. One must keep in mind that this was set in the 18th century (if i’m not mistaken), where a romance between two women was still unacceptable. One thing that I like about this movie is that it didn’t give us any of those tropes that is usually given to us in gay movies to make a good story. None of the main characters died. There was no cheating. Instead, the movie gave us a pure and incredible story of two women who found comfort and connection with one another within a short period of time.What would’ve been sad was if either one of them has forgotten. But they have not. Each of the characters vividly feels and remember one another, and the moments they spent together. And that, to me, is enough.
That's exactly what I thought. When I watched blue is the warmest color I was completely heartbroken and devastated. But in this film, it was bittersweet when they did not end up together but I was still happy and contented.
Omg, you read my mind? I wrote those words after watching too. "The movie gave us a PURE, PURE, PURE and incredible story of two women who found comfort and connection with one another within a short period of time." "What would’ve been sad was if either one of them has forgotten. But they have not. Each of the characters vividly feels and remember one another, and the moments they spent together."
I don’t think the ending was sad too. Because Héloise found "real Héloise" inside her. That moment wake her up about an ideal life full of passion & freedom. In that moment, she become stronger than ever. She is alive now, although it's just in her mind. At least.
I have a regret. That I had any chance to see this movie on big screen. I just watched it online, but the repercussion is already this big. Emotions of the first view are very important. I wonder if my 1st was in cinema, how deep the feelings can be.
@@comnamrice Well. I expected they running away together or something bohemian, since one was a painter and the other was truly rebellious. I found their taking their fate passively was not worthy of the true love they seem to share. Well, yes, you don't forget love. The age of innocence, I am jot sure they were lovers, he when learned of his wife pregnancy decided to let his love for another woman die. At the end, he decided not to go up to her apartment many years later, choosing to remember the way they were younger. This movie could have been between a male painter too, but the director is gay. So.
I cannot disagree. Masterpiece does not begin to describe this delicious hot and slow burn. I really cared for these women. Regards, Goat from Ruthless Reviews.
Everyone is saying hw they could feel the 2 and a half hours which for most films I definitely can. But honestly the writing was sooooo good with this film that I didn't want it to end. Like towards the end I was so sad that it was ending. I truly believe this could have gone on for another 30 mins and I would be totally fine with it.
exactly!! halfway through I thought to myself how I wish I had more to go, the cinematography, the writing, the acting, it crafted this idyllic atmosphere that I couldn’t fathom leaving.
The ending, at least to me was devastating. I felt this sense in that realm the women were not afforded the opportunity to be their authentic selves. It was like all the women were trapped, doomed by fate.
This film is so much more than a mere love story in front of an historical backdrop. It is also a general reflection on the nature of love and art, and an intimate portrait of (depending on your point of view) two to four women (three of them still young). It's a great "small" production that relies on intense and pure acting, intimate cinematography and sound design, crafty editing and a great amount of empathy and sympathy for its entire cast of characters. The film is very sensitive and sensual: It has suggestive framing, interpersonal looks, drawings and oil paintings; and from the entirety of costumes, interiors, dialogue, music and mannerisms as well as from what the script tells us between the lines, it teaches us quite a lot about late eighteenth century women's lives in Europe. This film is subtly sensuous, tactfully taboo-breaking, and its very erotic sex scene on flight anoint has clearly not been put in as a unique selling point but to contribute to both its characterisation and temporal placement in pre-revolutionary France. All in all, "Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire" is a true-to-life costume drama about the complex and manyfold aspects and facets of art, different kinds of love, passion, the romantic and sexual morals of its time, its limits and opportunities, about personal and interpersonal growth, the crannies, nuances and pitfalls of all this, about the profane and the sublime, about the deception and the revelation of art, about frailty and eternity. If you can dig the congenial full-on cinematic approach of "Frida" (2002) to an artist's life, loves, passions and works please make sure to watch the somewhat more reticent but nevertheless congenial and just as passionate and sensuous approach of "Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire" - and vice versa. Both movies belong in the same premium league of arthouse cinema (far from kitsch, but with a certain openness to mainstream appeal on a more general human interest level).
While the review has very good analysis, I find it unsatisfying in that it does not convey the depth of emotion that I felt when I saw viewed it two weeks ago. It is truly a masterpiece in every way. For those who like character development and beautiful cinematography, this is the film to see. It is certainly the best film I have seen in a long, long time. It is truly sublime.
Excellent breakdown if this movie! My favorite elemental scene is when, after making love, Marianne is asking Heloise which page to draw her on in her book and she says 28 then fast forward to the end of the movie and Heloises' painting is holding a book with the page number on it signifying she is still in love with Marianne. Brilliant!
I love this review, such a great examination. The impact of the film for me is the fact we're experiencing their relationship through a female lens/gaze and it makes a major difference in how the story is told. To your point, it's not lust or objectification, but genuine love and you can see and feel it as it's happening. Love this film. Top movies of 2019 for sure.
Excellent review! I finally got around to watching this movie and despite all the hype I heard, I still was not disappointed. Not in the least. This movie is so beautiful, intelligent, heavy, incredibly shot, and I love how each scene breathes. I haven't seen a movie with this kind of authentically human pace since Call Me By Your Name.
I still have a question about the scene when Marianne go away & Héloise run after her and say: “Turn around”. It’s true if say that Héloise is stronger than Marianne, Héloise’s love is bigger? Because she run & wanna keep her lover to stay, but Marianne don’t have strength to do anything back?
Was that Héloise, or was that Marianne's vision? Or maybe that was actually Héloise, but she was asking Marianne to look one last time. When they were reading the story of Orpheus, Héloise wondered if Eurydice had called out to Orpheus and asked him to turn around, knowing that she would be lost but still alive in Orpheus' memory. The poet's choice.
@@palinode Throughout the film Marianne sees flashes of Heloise in a wedding dress which haunts her, given the reality and the situation they were in with the forbidden love and the inevitability of them having to separate. That inevitable separation is what the story of Orpheus and Eurydice symbolizes throughout the film, when Orpheus turns around impatiently and then sees Eurydice one last time before she goes back down into the underworld and dies. So relating that to when Marianne hears Heloise tell her to turn around, as she turns, she takes a look at Heloise one last time in the wedding dress that's haunted her in the past few days, and then abruptly leaves and shuts the door, thus ending their relationship like Orpheus did to Eurydice.
This was just a great review analysis of this superior movie. I particularly liked the comments about the movie being in love with Heloise. Well presented.
This movie is amazing the use of the myth of Orpheus to frame the narrative is genius.
Saw this for the 1st time last night and then watched it again earlier today. This might be my best movie of 2019. It is captivating in terms of the visuals, the performance of the main actors, and the storyline. And yes, it is heartbreaking. But I don’t think the ending was sad. One must keep in mind that this was set in the 18th century (if i’m not mistaken), where a romance between two women was still unacceptable. One thing that I like about this movie is that it didn’t give us any of those tropes that is usually given to us in gay movies to make a good story. None of the main characters died. There was no cheating. Instead, the movie gave us a pure and incredible story of two women who found comfort and connection with one another within a short period of time.What would’ve been sad was if either one of them has forgotten. But they have not. Each of the characters vividly feels and remember one another, and the moments they spent together. And that, to me, is enough.
That's exactly what I thought. When I watched blue is the warmest color I was completely heartbroken and devastated. But in this film, it was bittersweet when they did not end up together but I was still happy and contented.
Omg, you read my mind? I wrote those words after watching too.
"The movie gave us a PURE, PURE, PURE and incredible story of two women who found comfort and connection with one another within a short period of time."
"What would’ve been sad was if either one of them has forgotten. But they have not. Each of the characters vividly feels and remember one another, and the moments they spent together."
I don’t think the ending was sad too. Because Héloise found "real Héloise" inside her. That moment wake her up about an ideal life full of passion & freedom. In that moment, she become stronger than ever. She is alive now, although it's just in her mind. At least.
I have a regret. That I had any chance to see this movie on big screen.
I just watched it online, but the repercussion is already this big.
Emotions of the first view are very important. I wonder if my 1st was in cinema, how deep the feelings can be.
@@comnamrice Well. I expected they running away together or something bohemian, since one was a painter and the other was truly rebellious. I found their taking their fate passively was not worthy of the true love they seem to share. Well, yes, you don't forget love. The age of innocence, I am jot sure they were lovers, he when learned of his wife pregnancy decided to let his love for another woman die. At the end, he decided not to go up to her apartment many years later, choosing to remember the way they were younger. This movie could have been between a male painter too, but the director is gay. So.
without a doubt, my favorite movie of the year
Yeah, mine too without a doubt. I've to give it few days but looks like it's definitely my top 10 of all time for me/
I cannot disagree. Masterpiece does not begin to describe this delicious hot and slow burn. I really cared for these women. Regards, Goat from Ruthless Reviews.
Not one single doubt is present!
Everyone is saying hw they could feel the 2 and a half hours which for most films I definitely can. But honestly the writing was sooooo good with this film that I didn't want it to end. Like towards the end I was so sad that it was ending. I truly believe this could have gone on for another 30 mins and I would be totally fine with it.
exactly!! halfway through I thought to myself how I wish I had more to go, the cinematography, the writing, the acting, it crafted this idyllic atmosphere that I couldn’t fathom leaving.
It's 2hours not 2+1/2h, might sound picky, though it is not overlong. I agree that it doesn't drag.
The ending, at least to me was devastating. I felt this sense in that realm the women were not afforded the opportunity to be their authentic selves. It was like all the women were trapped, doomed by fate.
That was the history of women, its heartbreaking the things women had to endure over the last thousand years.
This film is so much more than a mere love story in front of an historical backdrop. It is also a general reflection on the nature of love and art, and an intimate portrait of (depending on your point of view) two to four women (three of them still young).
It's a great "small" production that relies on intense and pure acting, intimate cinematography and sound design, crafty editing and a great amount of empathy and sympathy for its entire cast of characters.
The film is very sensitive and sensual: It has suggestive framing, interpersonal looks, drawings and oil paintings; and from the entirety of costumes, interiors, dialogue, music and mannerisms as well as from what the script tells us between the lines, it teaches us quite a lot about late eighteenth century women's lives in Europe.
This film is subtly sensuous, tactfully taboo-breaking, and its very erotic sex scene on flight anoint has clearly not been put in as a unique selling point but to contribute to both its characterisation and temporal placement in pre-revolutionary France.
All in all, "Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire" is a true-to-life costume drama about the complex and manyfold aspects and facets of art, different kinds of love, passion, the romantic and sexual morals of its time, its limits and opportunities, about personal and interpersonal growth, the crannies, nuances and pitfalls of all this, about the profane and the sublime, about the deception and the revelation of art, about frailty and eternity.
If you can dig the congenial full-on cinematic approach of "Frida" (2002) to an artist's life, loves, passions and works please make sure to watch the somewhat more reticent but nevertheless congenial and just as passionate and sensuous approach of "Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire" - and vice versa.
Both movies belong in the same premium league of arthouse cinema (far from kitsch, but with a certain openness to mainstream appeal on a more general human interest level).
You wrote this so perfectly.
While the review has very good analysis, I find it unsatisfying in that it does not convey the depth of emotion that I felt when I saw viewed it two weeks ago. It is truly a masterpiece in every way. For those who like character development and beautiful cinematography, this is the film to see. It is certainly the best film I have seen in a long, long time. It is truly sublime.
A MASTERPIECE
Yes.
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Excellent breakdown if this movie! My favorite elemental scene is when, after making love, Marianne is asking Heloise which page to draw her on in her book and she says 28 then fast forward to the end of the movie and Heloises' painting is holding a book with the page number on it signifying she is still in love with Marianne. Brilliant!
I love this review, such a great examination. The impact of the film for me is the fact we're experiencing their relationship through a female lens/gaze and it makes a major difference in how the story is told. To your point, it's not lust or objectification, but genuine love and you can see and feel it as it's happening. Love this film. Top movies of 2019 for sure.
Excellent review! I finally got around to watching this movie and despite all the hype I heard, I still was not disappointed. Not in the least. This movie is so beautiful, intelligent, heavy, incredibly shot, and I love how each scene breathes. I haven't seen a movie with this kind of authentically human pace since Call Me By Your Name.
I’m So Glad You Guys Watched & Liked The Film Called “Portrait Of A Lady On Fire”.
I still have a question about the scene when Marianne go away & Héloise run after her and say: “Turn around”.
It’s true if say that Héloise is stronger than Marianne, Héloise’s love is bigger? Because she run & wanna keep her lover to stay, but Marianne don’t have strength to do anything back?
think about the scene when they were talking about the orpheus and eurydice myth, when orpheus turned around to see eurydice.
Was that Héloise, or was that Marianne's vision? Or maybe that was actually Héloise, but she was asking Marianne to look one last time. When they were reading the story of Orpheus, Héloise wondered if Eurydice had called out to Orpheus and asked him to turn around, knowing that she would be lost but still alive in Orpheus' memory. The poet's choice.
@@palinode Throughout the film Marianne sees flashes of Heloise in a wedding dress which haunts her, given the reality and the situation they were in with the forbidden love and the inevitability of them having to separate. That inevitable separation is what the story of Orpheus and Eurydice symbolizes throughout the film, when Orpheus turns around impatiently and then sees Eurydice one last time before she goes back down into the underworld and dies. So relating that to when Marianne hears Heloise tell her to turn around, as she turns, she takes a look at Heloise one last time in the wedding dress that's haunted her in the past few days, and then abruptly leaves and shuts the door, thus ending their relationship like Orpheus did to Eurydice.
@@jocelyn3011 ahhhh yes!
Jocelyn Dzuong good sharing 👍🏻
What Do You Give The Film Called “Portrait Of A Lady On Fire”?
Just finished my screener and I’m literally shook!
It's a crazy good film for sure.
This was just a great review analysis of this superior movie. I particularly liked the comments about the movie being in love with Heloise. Well presented.
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