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The Lady in the Portrait (2017)
Directed by Charles de Meaux
Overview
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.
Length 94 minutes
Actors
Melvil Poupaud | Fan Bingbing | Wu Yue | Chin Shih-Chieh | Huang Jue | Thibault de Montalembert | Féodor Atkine