Week 5 | PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
Update: 2021-04-17
Description
Watched Portrait of a Lady on Fire (dir. Céline Sciamma/ 2019)
Points of Discussion:
- The Female Gaze
- Laura Mulvey's article, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
- Lack of a musical score in the film
References:
- “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” Is More Than a “Manifesto on the Female Gaze” (The New Yorker article by Rachel Syme/ 2020)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Daring to See (The Criterion Collection Essay by Ela Bittencourt/ 2020)
- Céline Sciamma and Adèle Haenel on Portrait of a Lady on Fire (vpro cinema Youtube Channel)
- "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (article by Laura Mulvey/ 1975)
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