Portrait of a Lady on Fire
“Don't regret. Remember.”
September 6, 2019R2h 1mTMDB ★ 8.1
MoviesRankd
8.50/10
Excellent
Letterboxd
4.43/5
1142380 reviews
IMDb
8.0/10
126,866 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
98%
Metacritic
M95/100
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.
Genres
Drama, Romance
Studio
Lilies Films
Language
fr
Status
Released
Box Office
How Portrait of a Lady on Fire performed
Budget
$5.7M
Worldwide Gross
$9.9M
Gross Profit
$4.2M
Return
1.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$1M
Domestic (est.)
International (est.)
$5M$5M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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