Portrait of a Lady on Fire(2019)

Selection and Concentration

The movie starts with a sound, the sound of Conte on a canvas.

When the story begins in earnest, the only sounds accompany Marianne on her journey. From the sound of waves to the sound of rain and firewood burning...

There is no background music at all in this movie, which has made me concentrate more on the movie to the extent that it seems strange to me.

I remember, one day, my friend once told me that he has a movie that he always plays when he's painting his works.

It occurred to me that this movie would not interrupt anything as if just like ASMR. I'd love to own this sound!

(I mean it... but it's not music but sound, so I guess it won't come out as an OST...) 

The movie made me immerse myself quietly from the beginning.

Along with the holy song from women hearing like a kind of consciousness in the middle of the movie, the concentration is amplified to the maximum.

The restrained sounds and images with beauty seem to make me more focused on their gaze, and even more special.

Individual and Solidarity

The main narrative of this movie is about love,

Three women with different identities and backgrounds meet and focus on how they get close together.

The scenes of Heloise, Marianne, and Sophie cook together, play a card game, and spend time reading Orpheus and Eurydice and sharing opinions about that come in an innocent but meaningful way.

It seems that the director's attitude that the movie doesn't necessarily have to be cool or special, without adding bluff or solemn weight to the narrative.

These daily hours accumulate to form a process of their empathy and solidarity, and when Sophie chooses to have an abortion, she stays with the others like real sisters.

I assume that the director intentionally doesn't show the whole story of each character. Because the movie tries to give each viewer a choice without forcing the director's view.

Last but not least, Love.

When painting a portrait of Heloise, their giving and taking looks and expressions at each other imply unfolding intimacy. Every time I saw the faces of Heloise and Marianne, which were getting brighter, I felt my heart also brightened.

The only music in the movie is the Summer out of the Four Seasons. It's not the background music, but the theme of this movie.

In the middle of the movie, Marianne played the Four Seasons with her live sound to Heloise.

Therefore, the excitement of listening to the performance "Four Seasons" at the end of the movie is bound to be even greater for the audience.

If a movie tells a story through people, about their scenery or the process of events,

a painting is symbolically and fragmentarily combined with various meanings, resulting in an image.

For me, every scene in this movie remained like a picture.

26 Jan, 2020 Portrait of a Lady on Fire



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