This paper examines the contributions of Céline Sciamma's film Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) to the lesbian imaginary in contemporary feminist cinema. Following an interdisciplinary methodology with a feminist and queer approach, novelties have been found in four aspects developed throughout the essay: Sciamma's narration, the representation of the female artist in the 18th century, the construction of a lesbian gaze connected with the Soloway's female gaze and the reinterpretation of the Orpheus and Eurydice’s myth, whose main innovation is the presentation of an Eurydice with agency. Portrait is a rich film with aspects that have not yet been investigated, such as its connections with pictorial works of the 19th and early 20th centuries and with other films in the corpus of contemporary lesbian cinema.... [Leer más...]