Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Aoife Barry, Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair and Charlene Lydon, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait de la jeune fille en feu.
Marianne is a portrait artist who is summoned to a remote island and assigned a strange task. The Contessa would task Marianne with preparing a portrait of her daughter Héloïse, which might be sent to a waiting suitor in Milan. There is just one complication; Héloïse has refused to sit for any portrait painter, and so Marianne must paint the young woman without her knowledge. However, as Marianne studies her subject more intensely, she finds herself more and more drawn to this isolated and lonely soul.
At time of recording, it was ranked 226th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show notes:
- Recorded 9th April 2020.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
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- Justin Chang at The Los Angeles Times looks at how Portrait of a Lady on Fire took Cannes by storm, May 2019.
- A.A. Dowd at The A.V. Club looks at the frontrunners and breakouts from the Cannes Film Festival, May 2019.
- Scott Roxborough at The Hollywood Reporter on the ticketing tiers at Cannes, May 2015.
- Shannon Keating at BuzzFeed on how Portrait of a Lady on Fire became the perfect quarantine watch, April 2020.
- Shanti Escalante at Interview Magazine discusses Portrait of a Lady on Fire in contrast to The Lighthouse, February 2020.
- Richard Lawson at Vanity Fair on the triumphs of Parasite and Portrait of a Lady on Fire at Cannes, May 2019.
- Josh Kurp at Uproxx on Céline Sciamma’s celebration of Parasite‘s Oscar wins, February 2020.
- Tom Grater at Deadline on the box office success of Parasite in the United Kingdom, February 2020.
- Dino-Ray Ramos at Deadline on Portrait of a Lady on Fire‘s spectacular boutique box office performance, Febrary 2020.
- John Ridlehoover at Comic Book Resources on Parasite becoming Letterboxd‘s most loved film, February 2020.
- Letterboxd celebrates its love of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, January 2020.
- Roger Ebert describes cinema as an “empathy machine” at RogerEbert.com, June 2005.
- Céline Sciamma talks to The Independent about the ubiquity of the male gaze in cinema, March 2020.
- Serenha Scateni at the BFI on the celebration of the female gaze within Portrait of a Lady on Fire, March 2020.
- Rachel Syme at The New Yorker on Portrait of a Lady on Fire as more than just a manifesto on the female gaze, March 2020.
- Emily Todd VanDerWerff writes at Episodes about learning to see through the female gaze in Portrait of a Lady on Fire, December 2019.
- Céline Sciamma talks to The Guardian about the erasure of women’s experiences from history and cinema, February 2020.
- Tyler Coates writes at Wired on Portrait of a Lady on Fire as the perfect love story for socially distant times, March 2020.
- Jennifer Wolfe at Creative Planet looks at how Portrait of a Lady of Fire accomplished its distinct visual aesthetic, January 2020.
- Chirs O’Falt at IndieWire on how Portrait of a Lady on Fire used modern techniques to create a digital painting, February 2020.
- Sonia Rao at The Washington Post on the rejection of a conventional score in Portrait of a Lady on Fire, February 2020.
- Chris O’Falt at IndieWire on the soundscapes of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, February 2020.
- Scott Tobias at The Ringer positions Portrait of a Lady on Fire within Céline Sciamma’s filmography, February 2020.
- Céline Sciamma talks to The New York Times about creating a space for women with Portrait of a Lady on Fire, February 2020.
- Céline Sciamma talks to Vox about the inclusion of the “jump scare of patriarchy” in Portrait of a Lady on Fire, February 2020.
- Richard Brody at The New Yorker on Portrait of a Lady on Fire as an argument for women’s artistic agency, December 2019.
- Chris Robe at Pop Matters on how female filmmakers thrived during the silent era, June 2019.
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- Violet Lucca at Sight and Sound offers a short history of abortion on screen, March 2020.
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- Park Chan Wook talks to Esquire about filming the sex scenes in The Handmaiden, October 2016.
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- Lisa Fiedelstein at The New York Times on how film productions ensure the comfort of performers in modern sex scenes, January 2020.
- Amanda Arnold at The Cut on France’s tepid response to Portrait of a Lady on Fire, February 2020.
- Rachel Donadio at The Atlantic on France’s complicated reaction to the #metoo movement, January 2018.
- Jacob Stolworthy at The Independent on the reaction to Roman Polanski’s victories at the Caesars, February 2020.
- Tom Grater at Deadline on Adèle Haenel’s accusations of sexual harrassment by director Christophe Ruggia, November 2019.
- The BBC reports on the arrest of Christophe Ruggia for sexual assault of a minor, January 2020.
- Mark Olsen at The Los Angeles Times on how Portrait of a Lady on Fire makes consent sexy, February 2020.
- Ren Jender at The New York Times on how Portrait of a Lady on Fire understands queer desire, December 2019.
- Dee Rudeback at The Guardian on the pull towards tragedy in gay love stories, March 2010.
- Michiko Kakutani at The New York Times looks at how tragedies like the AIDS crisis have shaped and informed gay stories, March 1993.
- Sam Ramsden at Metro.co.uk on how the cliché of the tragic gay love story endures, February 2018.
- Constance Grady at Vox on the use of French grammar (“vous” and “toi”) in Portrait of a Lady on Fire, March 2020.
- Céline Sciamma talks to The Playlist about taking inspiration for Portrait of a Lady on Fire from Titanic, May 2019.
- Shannon Keating at BuzzFeed on the queer subtext of Titanic, December 2017.
- Louis Staples at The New Statesman on Titanic as a formative queer text, December 2017.
- Hélène Delmaire talks to Vice about providing her painting (and her hands) for Portrait of a Lady on Fire, November 2019.
- Jane Frebury at The Canaberra Times on the connections between Portrait of a Lady on Fire and The Piano, December 2019.
- Céline Sciamma talks to Film Comment about Portrait of a Lady on Fire, December 2019.
- Jennifer Billock at The Smithsonian Magazine on the crumbling monuments of “Presidents’ Park” in Virginia, February 2016.
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