Portrait Of A Lady On Fire Review Celine Sciamma S Triumph Cannes World Of Reel
This is surely one of the peaks of entirely female-led cinema that we’ve seen in recent years, if ever. It’s mind-boggling how it is still such a novelty to watch women direct women, so much so that the film captures moments of incredible simplicity and yet they feel so fresh because these feelings have rarely, if ever, been dealt with such honesty before. A far cry from Sciamma’s handheld work in “Girlhood,” her last film, this painterly film is set in Brittany circa 1770....