Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Drama
Romance
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.
Cast
Noémie Merlant
Marianne
Adèle Haenel
Héloïse
Luàna Bajrami
Sophie
Valeria Golino
La Comtesse
Christel Baras
La faiseuse d'ange
Armande Boulanger
L'élève atelier
Guy Delamarche
L'homme salon
Clément Bouyssou
Le batelier
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Double Feature Pairings
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