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The Wailing
Why this pick
Its meticulously composed period world turns looking, posing, and concealment into charged intimacy, with a similarly patient build from formal distance toward passionate connection.
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01 / THE STORY
Don't regret. Remember.
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Noémie Merlant
Marianne
Adèle Haenel
Héloïse
Luàna Bajrami
Sophie
Valeria Golino
La Comtesse
Christel Baras
la faiseuse d'anges
Armande Boulanger
l'élève peintre à l'atelier