PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE dir. Céline Sciamma
You were right. I am scared. Do all lovers feel they’re inventing something? I know the gestures. I imagined it all, waiting for you.
Noémie Merlant wins Best Actress for Portrait of a Lady on Fire (dir. Céline Sciamma, 2019) at the 25th annual Lumière Awards
“Thank you to the Academy of Les Lumières".
This film has begun for me with one gaze during the casting, a gaze that I will never forget. A kind, horizontal and intense gaze, from Céline, who accompanied me from the start until now to find that role of Marianne and much more.
Thank you Adèle. I admire you so much, thank you for that dance we shared, thank you for your generosity, your strength and your freedom.
Thank you to all those kind gazes: Christel Baras, Bénédicte Couvreur, Claire Mathon, Luana Bajrami, Valeria Golino. The whole team, thank you to my manager Gregory Weill and to my parents.
This film circulates everywhere and is shared a lot, and it’s probably because it evokes something that is missing, and it’s the lack of our imaginations, women. I hope this movement is only the beginning. Thank you again.”