The Lady in the Portrait

The Lady in the Portrait

2017 · 94 min · FR · 5.9 (18 votes)
Dir. Charles de Meaux · Starring Fan Bingbing, Melvil Poupaud, Wu Yue, King Shih-chieh, Huang Jue, Thibault de Montalembert
Drama

An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint.