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Breaking rules and bending genres
Passions ignite in austere period drama Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, while cosmic monsters run loose in Color Out Of Space
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In Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Adele Haenel (left) plays a countess' daughter and Noemie Merlant (right) plays the artist commissioned to paint her.
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Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (R21, 120 minutes, now showing at The Projector, ) is a period drama that breaks the rules.
"Lush" is a word often used to describe dramas about wigged aristocrats cavorting in rococo ballrooms, but this French work is so trimmed to the bone as to be almost austere.
