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The Lady in the Portrait

2017 · 94 min

A stately, painterly slow immersion into court ritual and unspoken longing, where gazes linger longer than words.

Directed by
Charles de Meaux
Genres
Drama
Starring
Fan Bingbing, Melvil Poupaud, Wu Yue
Overview
An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint.

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Directed by
Charles de Meaux
Genres
Drama
Starring
Fan Bingbing, Melvil Poupaud, Wu Yue
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • identity
  • power
  • isolation
  • love
Places
  • single country house
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism6
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Charles de Meaux
Written by
Charles de Meaux, Michel Fessler
Starring
Fan Bingbing, Melvil Poupaud, Wu Yue, King Shih-chieh, Huang Jue, Thibault de Montalembert, Féodor Atkine, Li Ruixue
Cinematography
Dong Jinsong, Charles de Meaux
Runtime
94 min
Country
France, China
Languages
French, Mandarin

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