I found that I have watched a lot of French movies recently, among which "Portrait of a Burning Woman" is also my favorite. The reason for liking is not only the beautiful image picture in the film, but also a large part of the reason is because the unique visual atmosphere brought by the subtle capture of the lens in this film will take the initiative to pay attention to the inner emotional flow between the painter and the employer's lady, although it adds some nude pictures, it will not feel pornographic, and it will not let people watch the film with strange eyes, which is also a love film that requires secular understanding.
The film is mainly from the perspective of the female painter Marianne, telling the unforgettable love story of her and the employer's second miss, Marianne and Miss have lived in the world of repressed and indulgent feelings for a long time, in less than two weeks, from encounter, acquaintance, and finally in restraint to break out, enjoying a short and free happy love relationship, but in the end this unforgettable love can not be realized in the closed society at that time.
Through arranged marriages, maid abortions and a forbidden love, the film reveals that women were oppressed by the patriarchal system at that time, and it was difficult for women to get rid of the arrangement of fate in the shackles of the old society at that time.
As a photography enthusiast, in the end still want to stand on the image, this is a beautiful photography masterpiece, but also a good film to learn the portrait shooting, although the tone of the entire film shooting is very calm, there are not too many undulating large scenes, many times the composition is also decent, mostly using picture frames, symmetrical composition, but the photographer Claire Masson, but with delicate photography techniques, captured the intimate gaze process between the two, a surface seems calm, a surface slightly dull, The growing affection and inner activity between the two beautiful and sad women are vividly expressed, and of course, the actor's acting skills are also excellent.
Sometimes one look is better than countless pale words.
The tones in the film are also very much liked, mainly based on cool and dark colors, plus the photographer uses some special lighting methods, so as to deeply express their innermost emotions, and the picture looks more direct.
In the end, this film not only won the Best Screenplay Award and the Queer Palme d'Or, but also won the love of many audiences and international film critics, among which the beautiful image style is also very worthy of recognition and learning.