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Film Screening: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
October 18, 2023 @ 5:30 pm
The AHGSO invites you to a screening of
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Dir. Céline Sciamma
Wednesday October 18, 2023 // 5:30 PM
Vorhees Hall, 71 Hamilton, New Brunswick
Art History Graduate Lounge & via Zoom (registration below)
Following the screening, a discussion will be led by Professor Jenevieve DeLosSantos.
Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young lady who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day and secretly paints her at night. Intimacy and attraction grow between the two women as they share Héloïse’s first and last moments of freedom, all whilst Marianne paints the portrait that will end it all.
Registration link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkdOCorDguEtxS16mMRVIlX7bR6fTw7idh