“Despite its palpable eroticism, it’s not at all pornographic — a fate so many lesbian sex scenes have fallen victim to. Maybe that’s why the French see the film as lacking? Their loss!”
Photo: Courtesy of NEON French director Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire has been widely and rightly received as one of the most masterful films in recent memory.
While Sciamma doesn’t come off as dejected over this fact — she says France, with its “strong culture of patriarchy,” has yet to grasp the concept of the “female gaze” or even a “feminist film” — the revelation has left me indignant.
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