Features‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’: The smoldering lesbian romance snubbed by the OscarsPosted on February 12, 2020 Racy lesbian sex scenes put the French movie “Blue Is the Warmest Color” on the map back in 2013. The director of a new French film, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” would like you to know the “Blue” eroticism was mostly nonsense. “That is a film made by a straight man with straight women,” says “Portrait” director Céline Sciamma. “I’m a lesbian, so I think I know about intimacy and lesbian imaginaires[imagination]. We are making it closer to reality.”
