French filmmaker Céline Sciamma, who directed Girlhood and wrote Being 17 and the insouciant animated film My Life as a Zucchini, makes her most ambitious film yet in Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Sciamma’s 19th-century story ventures into what we think of as the literary past —The Brontës, Stendhal and, of course, Henry James — for a love story that fashionably goes against convention.
Armond White
dezembro 6, 2019