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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Cinema release 14 November Drama/romance (M)

Naked, a woman sits on the floor by a crackling fire, smoking a pipe. There’s strength, beauty and independence in that moment, which comes early in French director Céline Sciamma’s intense tale of desire set in a world of women; there’s not a single male character

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