With elements of the surreal and supernatural dotted in among the erotic, the film's panoply of extraordinary images adds up to a haunting melancholic masterclass.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 30, 2024

Claire Mathon鈥檚 stunning cinematography is achingly beautiful to gaze upon. Each frame is worthy of being hung in an art gallery, and each shot conveys so much meaning.

| Original Score: A | Jul 31, 2024

They say memory is the poet’s choice of love. After watching this masterpiece, I suspect that the present moment is the artist’s choice of love.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Director Céline Sciamma’s romantic feature celebrates the burning desires between two women with patience and tenderness unlike any film has shown in recent years.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Add two tantalizing performances from No茅mie Merlant and Ad猫le Haenel, and you have yourself one of the most romantic, beautiful films of the decade...

| Apr 4, 2024

The film links several interesting themes: the role of women artists at that time, lesbianism, abortion, social canons and their hypocrisy. There are at least two aspects of the women painters that are well and correspond to historical facts.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 28, 2023

Watching the two women grow closer together is almost intoxicating, even with the devastating knowledge that they鈥檒l never truly be able to have what they want.

| Oct 23, 2023

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, is a triumph. Few romance movies capture the totality of love, loss, and remembrance in the way Sciamma does in this film.

| Jul 25, 2023

In contrast to a film like 2013’s Blue is the Warmest Color, there is no exploitative nudity, no male gaze or overt sexuality. And yet there’s rarely a moment that’s not subtly charged with eroticism.

| Jul 20, 2023

Things kick off simply, if not innocently, in C茅line Sciamma鈥檚 masterful period film.

| Jun 21, 2023

Every artist begins with a blank canvas. It is what they do with it that defines them. With Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Céline Sciamma has painted her masterpiece.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 11, 2022

The period piece is a mesmerizing story about desire and heartbreak, and one of the best queer films of the year.

| Oct 12, 2022

This intelligent and sensuous film is special. An intimate and delicate study of how two people can fall in love.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Every shot feels as if it was painted on a canvas. Love and romance are not the same thing, and it is subtly shown in this movie that surrounds the lack of freedom there is in secrets. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 23, 2022

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire is passionate, elegant, and elemental.

| May 20, 2022

An abortion subplot allows for a scene of artistically inspired exploitation that breaks the film.

| Original Score: TWO STARS | Apr 25, 2022

It's a film that acknowledges the limits of reality even as Sciamma finds overriding freedom in her characters yearnings, making, as one character observes, not the lover's choice, but the poet's in telling this story.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 21, 2022

The plot reveals itself with an assured poetic tone that never falters. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 8, 2021

What works comes less from the script and more from the presence and power of the two beautiful protagonists. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 26, 2021

...a sumptuous, haunting love story with moments of dynamism...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2021