Petite Maman, 2021. Written and Directed by Céline Sciamma. Starring Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne, and Margot Abascal. SYNOPSIS: Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Petite Maman
Petite Maman, 2021. Written and directed by Céline Sciamma. Starring Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, and Nina Meurisse. SYNOPSIS: Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a treehouse. […]
Movie Review – Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2019. Written and directed by Céline Sciamma. Starring Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino, Christel Baras, Armande Boulanger, Guy Delamarche and Clément Bouyssou. SYNOPSIS: On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait […]
Movie Review – Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2019. Directed by Céline Sciamma. Starring Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel and Luàna Bajrami. SYNOPSIS: A painter hired to produce a portrait of a wealthy lady before she is married falls in love with her subject. There’s a scene early on in Céline Sciamma’s desperately romantic, sensory lesbian love story […]
Movie Review – Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire. 2019 Written and Directed by Céline Sciamma Starring Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, and Valeria Golino SYNOPSIS: On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman. Every scene, spoken word […]