“Not the Lover’s Choice, but the Poet’s”: Classical Receptions in Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Céline Sciamma’s film Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, 2019) tells its 18th-century story of love and loss in part by retelling an ancient story, the myth of the poet Orpheus and his beloved Eurydice, as related by the Roman poet Ovid in his epic Metamorphoses (c. 8 CE)...

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Main Author: Benjamin Eldon Stevens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Lumière Lyon 2 2020-06-01
Series:Frontière·s
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/frontieres/258
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