Portrait of a Lady on Fire (OUT at the Movies series)

201 D Street,Marysville CA 95901

03 March, 2023

Description

TCD hosts a movie every 1st Friday of the month - be sure to see our whole lineup for 2023! Doors open - 6:00pm Movie begins - 6:30pm $5 Suggested Donation with concessions for sale "Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until they together create a space in which it can briefly flourish, in this sumptuous eighteenth-century romance from Céline Sciamma, one of contemporary French cinema’s most acclaimed auteurs. Summoned to an isolated seaside estate on a secret assignment, Marianne (Noémie Merlant) must find a way to paint a wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), who is resisting chattel marriage, by furtively observing her. What unfolds in exquisite tension is an exchange of sustained gazes in which the two women come to know each other’s gestures, expressions, and bodies with rapturous intimacy, ultimately forging a subversive creative collaboration as well as a delirious romance. Charged with a yearning that almost transcends time and space, Portrait of a Lady on Fire mines the emotional and artistic possibilities that emerge when women can freely live together and look at one another in a world without men." Donations support TCD YOUTH! programming.