PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE: FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Saturday 4. July at 21:00 - 23:02
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (aka PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU)
Céline Sciamma | 2019 | France | 2h02m | French language with English subtitles
Céline Sciamma’s PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE unfolds on a remote coastal island in Brittany in the 18th century . Marianne is a painter commissioned to make a secret portrait of Héloïse , a young woman who recently left a convent and is expected to marry. Héloïse refuses to pose, so Marianne must study her in secret during their daily walks, then paint from memory at night.
From this premise emerges a sustained exploration of looking, desire, and the ethics of representation. The film’s narrative is constructed through gesture, silence, and the gradual accumulation of shared attention. Céline Sciamma builds one of the great films about looking, desire, and control. Every glance matters. So does every silence. The film turns attention itself into a kind of intimacy, as artist and subject slowly become collaborators in the image being made between them.
Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel give performances of remarkable restraint. Their relationship develops through observation, hesitation, and shared time rather than dramatic confession. Sciamma’s direction is precise and unsentimental, allowing gestures, faces, light, and distance to carry the emotional weight.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE is now rightly regarded as one of the defining romances of contemporary cinema. It’s also a film about authorship, memory, and the difference between being looked at and being truly seen.
FOOD AND DRINK POLICY: FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar opens 1 hour before the first screening of the day and closes at 02:00,.serving a wide selection of beer, wine, cocktails, and non-alcoholic refreshments including coffee and tea, as well as fresh hot popcorn! Outside food is allowed in the bar but not in the cinema. No alcohol from outside allowed. All guests are invited to arrive early and stay late!
LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter Bazari Orbeliani via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left to Level 1. Signage on the door. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTMzMTA2Mjk0MDI5MjM1
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
