An artist is given the task of painting the portrait of the daughter of a wealthy family to serve in arranging a marriage for her.
An entirely feminist film that manages to showcase the few actions available to a woman in the past to control or maintain any degree of her personal freedom. The idea of equality is evident in all the interaction scenes emphasizing the authenticity of emotions. Slowly but intensely, the story develops particularly visually, similarly to the analysis of a landscape picture, a fact highlighted by the emphasis on wide, natural, simple and minimalist frames but with even the smallest details very visible to the eye, which allows the undeniable expressiveness of the two actresses to be impossible to miss. The almost complete lack of music serves the same goal, the music being used efficiently only to mark three scenes of high interest (the scene representing the initiation of the connection between the two characters, in which their fascination becomes mutual, the scene of female solidarity which involves a large group and the final scene, intensely lived by both characters but only as a hidden witness for one of them).
Directed by: Céline Sciamma
With: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino
Rating: 9/10
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