Adèle Haenel
Even if you admire Deerskin’s audacity, its sudden and puzzling conclusion leaves much to be desired.
With Portrait of a Lady on Fire, writer-director Cèline Sciamma has created something extremely precious. Read our coverage from NYFF 2019.
Potrait of a Lady on Fire builds to an awe-inspiring, pulsating crescendo that leaves the audience’s collective heart thudding.
Céline Sciamma’s tender masterpiece paints a portrait of visual poetry, of what happens when art intersects with love for a fragment of time.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is directed by Céline Sciamma – 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.
A big crowd-pleasing comedy that truly delivers, The Trouble With You is simply a very funny film with a very large heart.
It takes a lot to stand out among the numerous films about the AIDS crisis, but Campillo has managed to craft one that’s certain to stand the test of time. Distinctive characters and an astute understanding of what made ACT UP so memorable shines through in 120 BPM.
The Unknown Girl sees the directors yet again flirt with their beloved recurrent theme of criminality, here taking their most overt detour into procedural thriller territory to date.