“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...
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Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Frontière·s |
| Online Access: | https://publications-prairial.fr/frontiere-s/index.php?id=258 |