74%User score 74 percent
The Piano
1993 · Drama · Romance
User Score
3K votes
Don't regret. Remember.
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.
Recommendations based on this film
SWITCH.
August 16, 2019
As the credits began to roll on ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’, I was practically incapable of moving or speaking. Every time I didn’t think the film could possibly get any better, Céline Sciamma elevated it to even greater, more incomprehensible heights, culminating in one of the most extraordinary moments in 21st-century cinema. This is a rare and precious film, breathtaking in its craft and intensely honest in its p…
Read the full review on TMDB
Heloisa
January 14, 2020
The best LGBT movie ever. And that's on period luv.
Read the full review on TMDBLouisa Moore - Screen Zealots
March 27, 2020
Céline Sciamma, writer and director of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” calls her period film a “manifesto on the male gaze.” This is the most accurate, elegant description of her story of a romance between two French women in the late 1700s. This is an impeccably detailed, beautifully acted, refined drama with a strong feminist angle that’s as stirring as it is thought-provoking. Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is commission…
Read the full review on TMDBtmdb92312096
July 31, 2020
Undoubtedly worth a watch; who knew portraits were the Tinder of the 1700s.
Read the full review on TMDBReviews are written by the TMDB community, not by Portrait of a Lady on Fire's publisher.
