“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” takes place almost entirely on ... to resist the temptation to have Héloïse smile in earlier scenes. Here and elsewhere, the spare script is smart and witty.

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A painter named Marianne is sent to rural Brittany in 1770 to make a portrait of Héloïse, a young woman about to be married to a Milanese gentleman. But Héloïse does not want to be painted, or ...