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The romantic tension between Héloïse and Marianne is built up so slowly and minutely that when they first kiss you are as relieved as you are delighted. […] Portrait de la jeune fille en feu is interested in eros in its less obvious forms – the way it emerges in the most seemingly mundane of encounters, or how obsessive love can be sparked by the way someone curls their mouth.
Synopsis: On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.