Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant in Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
Neon
Critic score: 98%
Audience score: 92%
Summary: In the 18th century, painter Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is whisked away to Brittany to paint a wedding portrait for the young Lady Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), and the two women grow closer than they ever expected.
Both critics and audiences agreed that the delicate period piece benefited from pairing its minimalist filmmaking style with raw emotional power. Beautiful, just flat out beautiful, wrote one viewer. I don t know why it took me so long to watch this masterpiece that left my heart wrenching.