Portrait of a Lady on Fire vs Promise at Dawn

Portrait of a Lady on Fire has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.3/10 for Promise at Dawn). Portrait of a Lady on Fire is the shorter watch at 2h 1m compared with 2h 10m. Promise at Dawn is the older of the two (2017 against 2019). Both are drama, history, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire posterPortrait of a Lady on Fire2019 VS Promise at Dawn posterPromise at Dawn2017
Portrait of a Lady on FirePromise at Dawn
Audience score★ 8.1/10★ 7.3/10
Year20192017
Length2h 1m2h 10m
GenresDrama, History, RomanceDrama, History, Romance, War
Country––
DirectorCéline SciammaEric Barbier
Main castValeria Golino, Noémie Merlant, Christel Baras, Adèle Haenel, Luàna BajramiCatherine McCormack, Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Arieh Worthalter

Synopsis

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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.

Promise at Dawn

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

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