"Portrait of a Lady on Fire" is the best lesbian movie I've seen since Abdai Koschich's "The Life of Adele." In fact, just defining it as a story between a woman and a woman has limited it, because its energy is far beyond gender, and it expresses the universal love that any lovers will have.
In this film, the place where love takes place is an isolated island, and the medium connecting love is painting. In the closed atmosphere of the 18th century, these two unmarried girls, one with outstanding talent and the other with beauty and sensitivity, their own relationship and interaction are therefore full of island atmosphere and oil painting quality.
In the process of telling the story, the director is very restrained and restrained, which makes people feel that she has never had the desire to explain the story quickly, nor the utilitarian intention of pursuing direct and stimulating dramatic effects. Every frame of the film is beautiful: the naked woman roasting in front of the fireplace; the three women suddenly stand up in the field, and the boundless stalks of yellow-green grass rippling around. The interaction between women and women is also really beautiful, they are all eye-to-eye, and I don't know when the transmission of love started.
It is precisely because of such intangibility, such inaccessibility, and such briefness that people feel that happiness comes so beautifully and so late, and separation comes so quickly and so early.
I believe that no one can hold back the tears by seeing the final scene of this movie.
Two lovers who have been separated for a long time and thought they would never see each other again, on a casual occasion, one saw the other and the other was ignorant. This kind of approach is late, but it is already separated from heaven and man forever - no matter how short the road is, you can't go through it, because if you go through the past, there will be no future. The unseen started to cry, I think she was probably crying for the audience.
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