Céline Sciamma‘s lesbian love story Portrait of a Lady on Fire was one of the true gems of last year‘s Cannes Film Festival, honored at the festival with the Queer Palm. The film por- trays the budding love of two young women in 18th-century France – one a noblewoman (Adèle Haenel) and the other a painter (Noémie Mer- lant), charged with the former‘s wedding portrait. Their hopeless ro- mance plays out against breathtaking landscape of Brittany and makes an impression that follows them their entire lives. Moving and penetrative.