Shot on a remote island off the coast of Brittany, the film brings a hothouse fervor to the women’s connection. Equally fascinating is the way Sciamma shows us Marianna revising her painting again and again — the early versions soften Héloïse’s sharper features and vivid stare. “When do we know it’s finished?” Héloïse asks the artist, who avoids completion as if that would put an end to the relationship itself.
The blazing performances of Haenel and Merlant could not be better or more attuned to the cadences of a secret love. In one stunning sequence, Marianne, Héloïse and the countess’s maid Sophie read the tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, about another doomed passion. But here on this island, where the rule of patriarchy is powerfully felt but rarely seen, Héloïse and Marianne can create a shelter from the outside world and the melancholy of love’s impermanence.with corsets.
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