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Created on 3rd of August 2020 (and updated hereafter as much as possible, but you know how it is 😅; the Excel file with all of the below is saved here for the time being.)
This is a master list gathering various interviews etc. with Céline, Adèle and Noémie (and others that were interviewed together with them, or in relation to them and their work), translated by @mlleclaudine, @ladyonfire28 and moi (@thexfridax). I would like to thank and applaud Claudine and Aimée for your massive contribution to the Portrait fandom.
There are so many more of you (@pensoakspaper, @unfumble, @morningmightcomebyaccident, @hedawolf, @empressofkalumina, @bereaving, @tenemos-que-hablar, @rosedelosvientos … to name a few) who keep the fire and conversation around Portrait and C/A/N alive by creating art and content – merci, this is also for you!
@justanotheruntitled04 created a master list of videos/audios with any of the three of them here. More Youtube translations can be found here: @akaiimee.
Aimée’s amazing POALOF DVD commentary master post can be found here. [C’est fini 😥]
***UPDATES***
If you want to find out more about Adèle’s theatre work, check this out.
POALOF podcasts made by @podcastofaladyonfire can be found here.
@scorpio-sky has created a DVDography of Adèle’s work, it’s here.
An inofficial fan-made transcript (French plus English stage direction) of POALOF can be found here, a collaboration 😍 between @pensoakspaper, @mlleclaudine, @ladyonfire28 and @morningmightcomebyaccident.
@page28club provided English subs for Adèle’s anti-racist transfeminist roundtable [troll alert during the Q&As 😡] and Boomerang interview [Césars, Les héros ne meurent jamais, Le Corps Lesbien].
Folks, we have the unofficial English translation of the French POALOF screenplay (Plain Archive) HERE, brought to you by yours truly @mlleclaudine, with support from @tonovember, @morningmightcomebyaccident, @ladyonfire28 and @hedawolf among others.
#MeToo in France: Interview with Marine Turchi (Nov 2020), Mediapart article about Adèle Haenel’s case (paywall; Nov 2019), Mediapart interview with Adèle Haenel (Nov 2019). 💔
@ladyonfire28 wrote her first piece about cinema, choosing Céline Sciamma’s debut film Water Lilies, see here in French or in English.
A CALL FOR SUBMISSION for Portrait fanart can be found here. A joint initiative by @empressofkalumina, @mlleclaudine, @rosedelosvientos and @thexfridax. 🖼️👻🔥 [on hold until further notice]
Interview with Céline Sciamma on ‘Coming of Age, in Life and Film’ (Berlinale Talents, March 2021) via @celinesfiamma
L’Étang review in the NY Times (May 2021)
How Good Filmmaking Brings a Script to Life - Wonderful scene breakdown of Portrait of a Lady on Fire by LFTS / Michael Tucker (May 2021), also highlighting the unofficial English translation of the POALOF screenplay by @mlleclaudine, with support from @tonovember, @morningmightcomebyaccident, @ladyonfire28, and @hedawolf
L’Étang recaps [1], [2], [3] by yours truly, @thexfridax (June, Aug 2021, May 2022)
Weird Céline Sciamma profiles, for good measure [1], [2]
Dee has created another comprehensive blog, this time for Céline’s works and collaborations
A lovely profile of Céline Sciamma via @mlleclaudine
The French Institute UK - Petite Maman Q&A with Céline Sciamma (Feb 2022)
Q&A with Adèle Haenel after a screening of POALOF in Vienna (May 2022)
Weird Adèle Haenel profile [1]
Trial against C.R.: Mediapart reports from the 1st and 2nd day (Dec 2024) translated by @mlleclaudine, pre-trial coverage with more background information - document only available in French [1], after the verdict [1, 2, Mediapart interview and podcast (only ep. 1 available for free)], Mediapart dossier (behind a paywall, see translations above)
I’m happy to add anyone else to this list, too! The more the merrier. 😉
Photo by Foc Kan/WireImage
Somewhat ordered by year of publication and C/A/N/others (as of 3rd of Aug 2020: 78 186 ✨; any further updates will be put at the bottom of each year to make my life easier (=> for those older than 2021):
2024
Adèle Haenel: "Je suis la représentante de cette enfant qui a disparu, que personne n'a protégée" [also see above for Mediapart coverage of the trial from Dec 2024]
2023
Adèle Haenel, itinéraire d’une artiste en lutte
“J’ai décidé de politiser mon arrêt du cinéma” : la lettre d’Adèle Haenel à “Télérama”
Noémie Merlant : Je n'ai jamais cédé
Noémie Merlant, actrice pleine de surprises : “J’ai toujours peur qu’on ne comprenne pas mes blagues”
Noémie Merlant : «On devrait tous être féministes, aussi bien les hommes que les femmes»
"Je la regardais et je revoyais Titanic !" : Noémie Merlant raconte son tournage vertigineux avec Kate Winslet
Tête-à-tête avec Noémie Merlant, grande promesse du cinéma français
2022
Interview with Céline Sciamma: “Alliances are extremely important”
“I’M NOT DOING CINEMA ANYMORE” [Adèle Haenel]
Noémie Merlant : «J'ai longtemps cru qu'il fallait être parfaite, ce qui me verrouillait»
Noémie Merlant : la comédie, “c’est très plaisant et libérateur”
Rokhaya Diallo & Adèle Haenel: Le combat des mots
2021
Céline Sciamma à propos de «Petite Maman»: «Je me cache moins qu’avant dans mes films»
«Le regard d’enfant est un regard perçant» Céline Sciamma, Petite Maman
Céline Sciamma : “Je veux donner du pouvoir politique aux mères”
Céline Sciamma: “Toute ma vie, je me suis demandé comment était ma mère à mon âge”
CÉLINE SCIAMMA | Interview
Céline Sciamma : « Pour une cinéaste, on ne sépare pas la femme de l’artiste »
Director Sciamma ‘It’s a dance with ghosts’
"On est du côté des enfants, de leur regard sur leurs parents": Céline Sciamma à propos de son nouveau film, "Petite Maman"
Reviews on Pétite Maman: [1], [2], [3]
Céline Sciamma : «S’engager rend toujours vulnérable»
Céline Sciamma, réalisatrice de “Petite Maman”: “Sur le tournage, je me demandais, que ferait Miyazaki ?”
Céline Sciamma: “’Petite Maman’” est le parfait film post-pandémie"
Baise-moi et King Kong théorie de Virginie Despentes
Adèle Haenel dans les eaux incestueuses de «L’Etang»
Feu!
«L’expérience offerte par une œuvre d’art devrait être centrale»
Reviews on L’Étang: [1], [2], [3]
Avec «Tár», Noémie Merlant entame son rêve américain
Noémie Merlant : "L'expérience de la salle de cinéma manque terriblement"
Interview / De Sciamma à Mixte : Nina Meurisse, l'actrice de Caen qui a la cote!
2020
CÉLINE SCIAMMA : «DiCaprio est une icône lesbienne. »
Céline Sciamma: inventer une femme pour les raconter toutes
Aïssa Maïga and Adèle Haenel : «Finally there’s something political happening»
Noémie Merlant, l'actrice qui dévergonde le cinéma français, se confie
Noémie Merlant (JUMBO) : "Si je ne fais rien, il faut que je sois dans l'eau"
The making of Shakira with Noémie Merlant
Noémie talks about Jumbo in L’instant cinéma
JUMBO, NOEMIE MERLANT
A Good Man Behind the Scenes
Rising star Noémie Merlant: 'Being a model is terrible. It shouldn't exist’
Noémie Merlant: «Quand ça dérange, ça titille des choses importantes et utiles»
Noémie Merlant: "I remember very well the pride I felt on the red carpet."
Noémie Merlant, in the light
*Noémie Merlant talks about the César*
“The double life of Noémie Merlant”
Jumbo - Interview de Noémie Merlant & Zoé Wittock
Rencontre avec Zoé Wittock et Noémie Merlant sur le film "Jumbo"
Zoé Wittock & Noémie Merlant: Jumbo Instagram Live 28 March 2020
Rencontres confinées : Claire Mathon à propos du film Portrait de la jeune fille en feu - 29 avril
From mourning to resilience, Gisèle Vienne discusses her next creation with Adèle Haenel
***UPDATES below***
Céline Sciamma: "Le militantisme est un moment de grande vulnérabilité"
Céline Sciamma & Annie Ernaux: Sœurs de Combat
Céline Sciamma
Translated interview with Adèle Haenel, heroine of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”; Translated excerpt from ’“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” - Approaching the True Face* of Adèle Haenel’ [2 in 1]
Haenel gets up and gets out
#4 Adèle Haenel
"Not correctness, but towards raising questions": the gaze of actress Adèle Haenel
“The experience of being alive is not the priority of the government”. Conversation with Gisèle Vienne, Adèle Haenel & Ruth Vega Fernandez
Adèle Haenel
Interview d'Adèle Haenel et Noémie Merlant pour la sortie Portrait de la jeune fille en feu au Royaume-Uni [1, autotranslated]; [2]
Fashion and cinema interview with Noémie Merlant, star of French cinema at the Deauville Film Festival
Rencontre avec Luàna Bajrami, étoile montante
2019
‘We started a culture war‘
Céline Sciamma • Réalisatrice de Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Céline Sciamma: «Il y a eu un sacrifice de lesbiennes dans toute l'histoire du cinéma»
«Portrait de la jeune fille en feu» : entretien avec Céline Sciamma [1]; Portrait of a Lady on Fire: An Interview With Céline Sciamma [2]
Entretien avec Céline Sciamma : « Je veux juste qu’on arrête d’opposer le point de vue féminin au point de vue universel. »
Céline Sciamma, en feu et en flammes
Céline Sciamma, la femme qui filmait les femmes
Céline Sciamma: «Portrait de la jeune fille en feu» est un film totalement dédié à l’amour»
"Portrait de la jeune fille en feu" : Céline Sciamma et Adèle Haenel s'embrasent
"Portrait de la jeune fille en feu" : rencontre au Méliès de Montreuil
«Je ne viens pas pour servir la soupe» : entretien avec Adèle Haenel
Viennale Star Adèle Haenel: ‘Equality is sexy’
A new politics of love - An interview with Adèle Haenel on 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'
Adèle Haenel: Figurehead of the new French Film
Adèle Haenel: 'Sex in cinema is usually quite pathetic’
Adèle Haenel (German interview)
Adèle Haenel en rediffusion et Pomme en déconfinement
Exclusive interview with Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel, lead actresses in ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’
Entretien avec Adèle Haenel et Noémie Merlant
Interview Noémie Merlant et Adèle Haenel : «En tant que comédienne, en tant que femme, il y a beaucoup d’échos.»
Dance of the gazes and female desire
[PORTRAIT] Noémie Merlant : «J’ai progressivement essayé de choisir des rôles féminins qui ont du sens »
Festival de Cannes 2019 : Noémie Merlant, «Quand je m’éteins, je vais voir un film et je re-rêve »
France tv & vous / République, le film interactif avec France.tv lab [Noémie Merlant, Lyna Khoudri]
Rencontre avec Hélène Delmaire, la peintre lilloise du film « Portrait de la jeune fille en feu »
Christel Baras, la directrice de casting qui a découvert Adèle Haenel à 11 ans
***UPDATES below***
Focus Vif, September 26, 2019: Dixit Céline Sciamma
Vertiges de l’amour
Céline Sciamma, le feu sacré & Noémie Merlant, portrait of an actress
CÉLINE SCIAMMA: "Si on me demande ce qu’est le female gaze, pour moi, c’est partager."
Culture : Feux croisés entre Céline Sciamma et Monica Sabolo
Rencontre Céline Sciamma: "Il faut créer les conditions de sa liberté"
Céline Sciamma : «Je voulais faire un voyage dans l’histoire de l’art d’un point de vue féminin»
The female gaze: An interview with Céline Sciamma; Interview with director Céline Sciamma; Sciamma: ‘I want to show images of daily life that are missing’ [3 articles in 1]
Interview : Céline Sciamma «Ils ne savent pas voler, elles, elles savent.»
Love and let love
Céline Sciamma: ‘I love films that hate me!’
Director Céline Sciamma: ‘I try to create new forms of eroticism’
Forgotten women
‘I am a film activist’ - Interview with Céline Sciamma
“On ne s'en laisse plus conter. On écoute ce qu'on ressent.” (Adèle Haenel et Noémie Merlant)
Adèle Haenel : «Le respect pousse à s’investir»
Rencontre avec Adèle Haenel, à l'affiche de trois films à Cannes
Actress Adèle Haenel: The French Revolutionary
Portrait de l’artiste en jeune femme
2018
Adèle Haenel, le jeu sacré
Adèle Haenel : «Il y a toujours matière à rire de soi »
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Adèle Haenel : “J’ai grandi avec La Cité de la peur et Les Trois Frères”
Adèle Haenel: «Je fais souvent les choses à l’envers»
2017
Entretien avec Adèle Haenel – Sophie dans 120 battements par minute
No, I’m not made of sugar: Shooting star Adèle Haenel
Génération Slimani
Adèle Haenel et Adèle Exarchopoulos : Orpheline
Adèle Haenel in an interview for 120BPM
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Screenplay writer Céline Sciamma: The women behind the big emotions
Un fantôme que l’on décrit avec complaisance est un fantôme qui cesse d’agir 👻
Adèle Haenel. L’émotion brute
‘I have ten years, then I become part of the system’
"120 BPM" à TÊTU : Les acteurs nous ont confié les secrets du tournage
Adèle Haenel in 2017 [3 articles merged]
Quand Adèle (Haenel) rencontre Adèle (Exarchopoulos)
Noémie Merlant & Naomi Amarger: ‘Heaven will wait’
2016
Translated interview with Adèle Haenel [and others] on ‘The Bloom of Yesterday’
Adèle Haenel, l'insaisissable
Le Grand Journal du 23/03 avec Wassim Nasr, Stéphane Gatignon, Adèle Haenel et Marianne Denicourt - CANAL +
MASTERCLASS du 6 oct 2016 - La Fille Inconnue
Dans la tête de Adèle Haenel
Noémie Merlant dans «Le Ciel Attendra »
Chris Kraus about Adèle »Machine Gun« Haenel
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André Téchiné et Céline Sciamma: entretien croisé autour de Quand on a 17 ans
Interview : Céline Sciamma
Adèle Haenel, la nouvelle héroïne des frères Dardenne
Adèle Haenel, géante dans Les Ogres
Interview with Adèle Haenel about ‘The Unknown Girl’
Les Ogres. Adèle Haenel: "Ne valorisons pas trop la souffrance"
Adèle Haenel: “Je ne veux pas me résoudre au cynisme”
Adèle Haenel: “And the fight against racism, is that a black thing?”
Adèle Haenel : «La plus grande force de l’homme, c’est le pardon»
Adèle Haenel : “Dire ‘Allez vous faire foutre !’, c'est un peu mon moteur” [Télérama; long version]
Adèle Haenel, comédienne : “Le cinéma blanc et masculin, j'en ai marre” [Télérama; short version]
Noémie Merlant, talent brut
2015
‘Being young means: To refuse’
Une apparition de cinéma [!!!]
Brouiller les pistes [!!!]
Les grandes actrices sont des femmes intelligentes
Une minute sans cligner des yeux
On va te manger
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Adèle Haenel, la belle dégenrée 😱
2014
Filming of ‘Girlhood‘
‘Girlhood’ - A meeting with Céline Sciamma
"'Bande de filles' montre des Blacks à l’écran et ça nous rend fières"
Céline Sciamma: «Les grands films libèrent des territoires plutôt qu’ils ne les occupent»
Cannes 2014: Céline Sciamma, fille de bandes
Adèle Haenel : "Je ne pose pas de limite quand j’ai donné ma confiance"
Les verbes d'Adèle: Rencontre avec Adèle Haenel, actrice
Adèle Haenel - Force vive
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Course en Tête
Adèle Haenel : “A un moment on commence à tellement se kiffer qu'on fait n'importe quoi”
Adèle Haenel, petit soldat
La belle vie d'Adèle Haenel
Adèle Haenel: « J’aime l’idée que les filles s’endurcissent »
Interview d'Adèle Haenel : "La relation avec un réalisateur fait tout"
Adèle Haenel: cherchez le garçon… manqué !
Adèle Haenel: “On ne me reproche plus de ne pas être assez féminine!”
“Elle a un fort potentiel burlesque”, Adèle Haenel racontée par André Téchiné
“Une super-héroïne sans superpouvoirs”, Adèle Haenel racontée par Thomas Cailley
2013
***UPDATES below***
Adèle Haenel - La belle audacieuse
2012
Adèle Haenel et Nicolas Maury: conversation ciblée sur Avignon
Une journée avec Adèle Haenel
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Interview with Céline Sciamma
2011
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Tomboy - Interview with Céline Sciamma
Céline Sciamma, quand tourner est un jeu d’enfants
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Because men designed suits for themselves and then Cate Blanchett was born and they should have just stopped…
#1
No one has ever, and will ever wear a suit like this ever again. The level of cunt is actually hard to make eye contact with. Like, hand me a gun because I’ve voluntarily stopped breathing. Anyway, the undone bow tie has me foaming at the mouth, I’m beyond feral. Undebatable damage.
#2
This one is just like the Granddaddy of suits. She seems to be wearing the watch of lesbian time in that diabolical neckline because again, the world has stopped. The shoulder pads my lord. I’m actually glad Tumblr won’t let me add the shot where she’s looking down the lens because some of y’all would simply pass away.
#3
And it just wouldn’t be a Cate Blanchett suit lineup without a Lou Miller suit. I’ve genuinely never seen someone serve so much insane tailoring in one wardrobe. This one, by marginal hairs, wins bc I’m on the floor the longest. Just, diabolical.
#4
This is one is going straight to slut heaven. The short hair — I am on my fucking knees, Cate. To be fair, the suit is nothing special, but the styling is out of this world. Brad Pitt fucking who??
#5
This one is absolute cedar gold. Pinstripe on pinstripe…and she’s eating it the fuck up. It’s slouchy in all the right places, she looks incredible.
#5 and #6
Both of them are two very different lesbians, and I’d let both of them step on me. The first one is giving headmistress from helltown, the shaping is motherMAGNIFICENT, and the second one is the substitute teacher who’d roll me a j to make me feel better. I’d let her fuck up my life in that suit.
#7
This one is just magnificent. The wide collars, the wide trousers, the wide CUFFS. If the other suit was Granddaddy - this one is Grandmommy. I’m beyond any other words, except I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s like a performance in a suit.
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Bianca sketches and flirts with Digna. Doña Clara shows up and is pleased to meet the great artist. She wants a portrait done of Pelayo. Bianca has no time for that, but she does chat with Clara once Digna leaves the room and drops the news of Marta’s plans for her part of the inheritance. Clara is surprised, but happy. Bianca wonders if they might not be able to do something bigger. A foundation? Clara asks. The seed has been planted. Bianca’s dirty work here is done.
Marta comes home with her father. They discuss Julia’s recital, which Marta couldn’t attend for some reason, when they stumble across doña Clara waiting for them. She’s heard the news, she tells Marta, although changes it so that it seems like she’s received it from the notary. She has an idea. A foundation, to which she would donate a lot of money, and she wants Marta to be its president.
In the preview, Marta tells Fina about it. Neither looks thrilled.
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Marta and Fina have breakfast and Marta fixes the whole inheritance situation by promising to donate it to a charity that helps people who don’t have the ability to pay for expensive medical treatment. She brings up Isidro, who without her father wouldn’t have been able to have that treatment he got that extended his life. Fina is all for it. Fina says they’re very lucky, that even though Pelayo tried to separate them forever, they’ve managed to still be there, together, in spite of everything.
Marta goes to the store and chats with Paula and Valentina. She tells Paula she’s surprised that she didn’t accept doña Clara’s offer. Paula just says she wanted to show what she could do at the store. Valentina and Marta half a brief convo where Marta more or less tells her she’s very glad she and Andrés are back together. He’s very happy.
Fina and Bianca get a work montage.
In the preview, Bianca tells Clara just how Marta is planning to use the money. It seems she’s suggesting making the donation come attached with Pelayo’s name?
Jamie, who was the human caretaker to beloved Husky-Malamute Sherpa (2010-24), has got himself into trouble, the good kind!
Asking his followers and interested parties to help reach some milestones by buying plenty of Sherpa-inspired pin badges, i.e. 1.300, 1.600, 2.010, 2.024, 2.500, 3.500, and 5.000. In return, Jamie will bring us on a couple of adventures, i.e. the Dolomites, Norway, South West Coast Path (Cornwall, UK), getting a tattoo of his much missed pal, or shudder - for him mainly - doing a livestream 😁.
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PS: If I had to name a pair of dog and human, who brought me a lot of joy during very trying times (and other ones), it would surely be Jamie and Sherpa (plus Jodie and Key'ush). So here goes nothing.
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