Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

A female painter arrives at a remote estate in order to produce a portrait of its young mistress, intended to inspire a proposal from its Milanese recipient. The mistress has refused to sit for a portrait and resents her fate, made hers by the elder sister's suicide. What starts as subterfuge -- spending time together so that her likeness can be captured without disclosing that's what's happening -- becomes an actual bond. When the matron of the house leaves for several days, the two women become even closer as they help a young servant terminate an unwanted pregnancy.

It's an absolute stunner of a romance. Quiet yet inevitable and, ultimately, impossible. The last scene wrecked me.

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