電影《燃燒女子的畫像》影評：轉載一篇外媒報道

（註：本報道未經原作者許可，因為我找不到。。侵權必刪。偶然發現是關於席導對兩人感情的評價，滿足了本人的八卦之心，按捺不住激動之心轉載於此處以供有相同興趣者參閱，禁止用於任何盈利行為，不得再次轉載於各犄角旮旯。另外，本篇沒有很難的單詞，應該沒有閱讀障礙，就不翻譯了）

Portrait of a Lady on Fire: The Real-Life Love Story Behind the Scorching Film

Filmmaker Céline Sciamma wrote Portrait with her ex and frequent collaborator, Adèle Haenel, in mind for the part of the artist’s muse.

BY JULIE MILLER

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

COURTESY OF NEON.

Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a heart-shattering love story. Set in coastal Brittany in the 18th century, the film tracks the slow-burning romance between a portraitist, Marianne (Noémie Merlant), and the woman she has been commissioned to paint, Hélo?se (Adèle Haenel). The film dispels the myth of the one-dimensional relationship between artist and muse, making Marianne and Hélo?se reciprocal collaborators—their cumulative love and art entangled.

But Portrait of a Lady on Fire takes on new dimension upon discovering that it was born from a creative and former romantic relationship as complex as the one depicted onscreen—one between Sciamma and Haenel. The director and the actor met while collaborating on 2007’s Water Lilies—a coming-of-age film set in the world of synchronized swimming. After filming, Sciamma and Haenel became romantically involved—and when Haenel won the supporting-actress César in 2014, for her role in Katell Quillévéré’s Suzanne, she ended her speech by declaring her love for Sciamma onstage.

「And above all, I wanted to thank…I wanted to thank Céline…because…because I love her, voilà,」 Haenel said, trembly with emotion, in a coming-out that was largely missed by press. Speaking last year to Mediapart, Haenel said, 「We had a long and beautiful love affair together.」 The actor said that their relationship helped her recover from a traumatic experience she had with The Devils director Christophe Ruggia’s as a teenager, where she said the filmmaker sexually harassed her. (Last month, Ruggia was charged by Paris prosecutors with 「sexual assaults on a 15-year-old minor by a person having authority.」 Ruggia has denied the accusations, but asked for Haenel’s forgiveness if there had been errors in his conduct toward her.)

「When I talk about people who saved my life, I begin with her,」 said Haenel in the same interview. 「The relationship I had with Céline was contrary to everything that had happened to me before in life. She was someone who listened to me, she took [care] of what I said, who listened to my anger, and together, mobile, we faced life, we rose up.」

Sciamma has said that Portrait of a Lady’s romance—and the artistic dialogues and collaboration it inspires—mirrored, in certain ways, in their own romance.

「Just as the characters in the film discover each other in a painting studio, so Adèle and I met on a film set,」 the director said last year. 「We talked a lot about cinema [during our relationship] and we grew enormously intellectually. I also wanted to show that in the film: the lasting, emancipating effect that such a romantic encounter can have on your life.」

Speaking to Vanity Fair about the relationship, Sciamma said, 「We’ve been making films for 10 years.」 And even though the romantic element of their relationship has ended, 「Our conversation around cinema has never stopped. We were always paying a lot of attention to the work of one another, but also making some choices together. Everything I did, Adèle had a part in it in a way, and a lot of the choices she made also I was a part. It never stopped being collaborative. And I really wanted to work with her again…because I think she’s the most amazing actor.」

Celine Sciamma and Adele Haenel at the Cannes Film Festival, May 19, 2019.BY ANDREAS RENTZ/GETTY IMAGES.