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  • Опубликовано: 11 фев 2020
  • Céline Sciamma discusses her writing process and the importance of giving agency back to her female characters.
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  • @baftaguru
    @baftaguru  4 года назад +174

    Are you looking forward to Portrait of a Lady on Fire?

    • @fiorellaespinozaagramonte6857
      @fiorellaespinozaagramonte6857 3 года назад +1

      yesssssssss

    • @danielsolano5403
      @danielsolano5403 3 года назад +4

      Best film of it's year

    • @dj.deb.usa007justiceangels6
      @dj.deb.usa007justiceangels6 3 года назад

      THANKS FOR THE GREAT EXAMPLE OF LESBIANS 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈💌🛐🛐🛐🛐☦️🛐🛐☦️🛐☦️🛐💯🕯️🏳️‍🌈🔥🆘😘😇🥰🕯️🕯️🕯️ IN LOVE

    • @dj.deb.usa007justiceangels6
      @dj.deb.usa007justiceangels6 3 года назад +2

      @@danielsolano5403 YES IT'S A GIFT PEOPLE NEED TO SEE

    • @dj.deb.usa007justiceangels6
      @dj.deb.usa007justiceangels6 3 года назад +1

      PLEASE I WILL TRY TO WRITE A FEW MYSELF

  • @stephaniebrown3404
    @stephaniebrown3404 4 года назад +434

    She is a genius. An absolute genius with a humble heart. Her films are life-changing and mean so much to many of us. Thank you for this.

  • @priyac7054
    @priyac7054 4 года назад +112

    I don't understand how France doesn't consider it a collected shame to NOT SEND this movie to the Oscars

    • @captainawkward8734
      @captainawkward8734 3 года назад +8

      in the defense of the poeple making these choices, the movie we sent instead is almost equally brilliant. but i would have loved for Portrait to represent us at the Oscars!

    • @nickl9317
      @nickl9317 Год назад

      @@captainawkward8734t wasn’t even close. Les Miserables is militant bullshit sent to the Oscars as a fake sign of respect and hope to appease the suburbs after various incidents that could have created revolt. Nothing to do with talent or quality

  • @enolaholmes3309
    @enolaholmes3309 4 года назад +259

    This is an amazing lecture. She's so charismatic, eloquent and smart. She gives tremendous insight into her writing process, while staying humble. What an inspiration. Also, Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, is the best film of the decade. No work of art has ever touched me like that.

  • @aixagrandi
    @aixagrandi 4 года назад +106

    She is the best director of our era and that's a fact. I love her so much. She changed my life.

  • @TheFunk79
    @TheFunk79 4 года назад +93

    I could listen to Sciamma talk for hours (and have). Her words are so poetic, regardless of language, and her intellect is enormous. By writing and speaking her truth and turning it into art, she is impacting people's lives and changing how people think about and make cinema. Portrait is her largest masterpiece to date. I can't wait to see what her future filmography will entail. Never stop writing Celine, and sharing your truth with the world. Genius.

  • @sailorsally
    @sailorsally 4 года назад +32

    The theme of Orpheus and Eurydice was what tied the whole film together for me. So interesting that it was the last thing to be added!

  • @thirzahemert7018
    @thirzahemert7018 4 года назад +34

    I normally struggle with watching a 30+ minute youtube video, especially if it's just someone talking. But I could watch this for more than an hour. This felt like only 15 minutes

  • @dcgrrl321
    @dcgrrl321 4 года назад +133

    Totally jealous of how well she writes in a language that is not her native tongue. Extraordinarily well done. 👍🏼

    • @Nikthehermit
      @Nikthehermit 2 года назад +1

      French is fancy English so.....

    • @dcgrrl321
      @dcgrrl321 2 года назад +2

      @@Nikthehermit Nope. It is true that if you’re a native speaker of one, it’s not that difficult to learn to become conversant in the other. But, if you speak both, you know the rules are quite different. It’s one thing to hold a conversation. It’s quite another to compose a speech and deliver it with all the language complexities of a well educated native speaker and having written it at the last minute. Give this woman credit, her English is magnificent.

    • @Nikthehermit
      @Nikthehermit 2 года назад

      @@dcgrrl321 I literally speak French and many of the rules that constitute a basic french sentence are identical in English but would be considered more formal. Many of the verbs and adjectives she uses are common place in France but when translated take on a higher "air". I'm not discrediting her intelligence I'm just telling (after having lived in France) why it's easier for her to maintain accurate translation and also convey of deeper meaning than someone else who spoke English as a second language.

    • @dcgrrl321
      @dcgrrl321 2 года назад +1

      @@Nikthehermit If what you were saying were true, ppl would do it all the time. They definitely DO NOT. I speak both and I’m trying to figure out what you mean by the rules are the same but more formal. But it’s a waste of time, it doesn’t mean anything worth figuring out. Ciao

    • @rg1809
      @rg1809 2 года назад +1

      @@dcgrrl321 Actually, I found your discussion quite interesting.

  • @tearwordmelody
    @tearwordmelody 4 года назад +61

    Céline Sciamma, the genius herself.
    The film is a true masterpiece. The best example of poetic cinema. It's so perfect that it blows me away every time. It changed my life forever.

    • @nickl9317
      @nickl9317 Год назад +2

      There are a lot of other-and much better-poetic films. This one has a few qualities that make it noteworthy, especially the colors. The main problem is it takes a very brainy approach typical of certain « schools », but lacks a bit in terms of atmosphere and symbolism, which was not the case with the work of the great poetic films. Still a very good film, but please everyone stop with the superlatives. Once you find the most something your quest ends. Stay open, watch everything, this is not the end of the line, there is a LOT of other stuff out there, even better stuff.

    • @tearwordmelody
      @tearwordmelody Год назад

      @@nickl9317 Lacks a bit in terms of symbolism? I think you should watch it again, Nick. You talk about "so many other films", but didn't mention any. Who said my quest ended? I still watch many films but couldn't find something like that again, especially in queer cinema.

  • @merrymayma714
    @merrymayma714 3 года назад +7

    "Screenwriting is to work on your desire instead of immediately acting on them." Bravo Sciamma!!! Thanks A LOT!!!

  • @WuTengFamily
    @WuTengFamily 4 года назад +9

    Absolute queen. Having Adèle Haenel run fast towards the edge of a cliff? *chef's kiss*

  • @antonia2260
    @antonia2260 4 года назад +50

    A brilliant woman with a kind heart. I could listen to her for hours. She has inspired me as a writer, and for that I am forever thankful.

  • @gunespadem9264
    @gunespadem9264 4 года назад +14

    Her mind! Literally her MIND!

  • @vhagarsand968
    @vhagarsand968 4 года назад +111

    Thank you BAFTA Guru, this lecture is pure GOLD.
    Not that often it's given the chance to listen and learn SO MUCH from a screenwriter's personal process like this one.
    I have been discussing about this film since two months with my friend by now. I can consider myself a film buff, I love cinema, I have seen many remarkable movies in my life, but It's not that easy remember a film that gave me so much as much _Portrait de la jeun fille en feu_ . Literally not a single dusk pass by without talking about this, actually we talk about this until earl mornings. I am keeping rewatching it and not only the enthusiasm and the emotions that it give to me don't decrease, actually they are keeping growing and growing day after day. Now this MASTERCLASS is keeping me and my friend going even deeper the process and to read new layers of the opera, that reverberate obsessivly and pleasantly on my mind.
    Artist's filmography built her way of thinking, a pure vision that pigeonhole into a mindset would be unfairly thight.
    All of this gently exploded into this masterpiece, a delicate and firm deafening silence.
    *Céline Sciamma* if you are reading this, well, I wish I could meet you in person to tell you how much I am gratefull for this everlasting opera. It would be amazing to learn more from you and I can't wait to see what else you have to give and tell.
    I can't rationally get my self together to explain what this film means to me, and always it will.
    GRAZIE MILLE Céline.
    There is a _before Portrait de la jeun fille en feu_ and an _after Portrait de la jeun fille en feu_ .
    P.S. I am italian and god, this could not have been that a french, and a french spoken film.

    • @saraarribas
      @saraarribas 4 года назад +2

      👏👏👏👏👏 same here

    • @ultraconservative
      @ultraconservative 3 года назад

      "P.S. I am italian and god, this could not have been that a french, and a french spoken film." What do you mean?

  • @meerkattie
    @meerkattie 4 года назад +17

    i’m in love with her and her mind

  • @ao637
    @ao637 4 года назад +35

    There's a full transcript online with the full uncut Q&A. Just google "bafta celine sciamma" (I tried posting the link before, but my comment was suppressed. Trying again without link..)
    Including the full Q&A, it must be at least twice as much as what's included in the video here. When I found it, my jaw dropped. Enjoy.

    • @annabella7285
      @annabella7285 4 года назад +3

      rorysaur Thank you very much! Sciamma is truly a genius! Very fast read.

    • @jessegiotti4397
      @jessegiotti4397 4 года назад +2

      thnks:)

  • @farzanazafreen9495
    @farzanazafreen9495 4 года назад +27

    She is absolutely brilliant. Every word she says is filled with knowledge and deep understanding. I am awed. And I am glad that I could watch her giving this beautiful speech. Just wonderful!

  • @user-rl7mm6ce9r
    @user-rl7mm6ce9r 4 года назад +21

    I knew Celine had an amazing talent in writing but just found out she also has that humor and charisma in making a speech! She's definitely a genius. I wouldn't have wanted Parasite to win the Palme d'Or like that much if I saw Portrait of a lady on fire earlier(just joking I love Bong's film too😂). Anyway it's one of the best movies in my entire life! Love and support from S.Korea🖼🔥

  • @joannetiu471
    @joannetiu471 2 года назад +4

    What a generous artist Celine Sciamma is! She broke down the process so clearly that I am inspired. Not necessarily to get into screenwriting and film-making, but just to live my life full of desire, learning and collaboration. I don't think I can watch another movie for a while after Portrait, which just watched (2 years too late).

  • @newyorkmyndd9801
    @newyorkmyndd9801 2 года назад +3

    Um, this is freaking awesome! 4 days! Celine is incredible at communicating a process that can apply to many things in art and life and is almost apologizing for not having more time to be more brilliant. Love her films and her way of explaining and telling us a story. Portrait is so beautiful ❤️👏💐

  • @actingout4462
    @actingout4462 4 года назад +14

    she is phenomenal. i look up to her so much as an artist. thank you céline sciamma for this movie. i look forward to getting to know your other films past and future

  • @genevievetrinh9977
    @genevievetrinh9977 4 года назад +17

    This woman is a genius.

  • @willhawthorne
    @willhawthorne 4 года назад +11

    Wow! Absolute gold dust. Thank you Céline. Such humility and openness about the writing process. Accessible, profound and seemingly put together in the space of 4 days (in a second language). Bravo!

  • @camilaoca
    @camilaoca 4 года назад +38

    What a fascinating woman! She's so inspiring.

  • @anhtieu2118
    @anhtieu2118 4 года назад +31

    Big thanks for this video! I’ve been waiting for this this whole time~ 😍
    Never get tired of listening to Céline Sciamma sharing about cinema ❤️

  • @angeljones2291
    @angeljones2291 4 года назад +10

    Wow. What a gift. I could listen to her talk about writing alllll day. Thank you for this!

  • @pete7110
    @pete7110 Год назад +1

    Love Céline Sciamma and her work. Very intelligent writer and director

  • @gilllee625
    @gilllee625 3 года назад +4

    This lecture inspires me a lot. With her witty insight on writing, feminism, and art history, I start to consider Celine Sciamma as my tutor. Absolutely wonderful! Thank you BAFTAGuru, and thank you, director.

  • @cinelez
    @cinelez 4 года назад +19

    What an iconic figure! I adore her.

  • @iankamontas
    @iankamontas 4 года назад +8

    Céline, your job is important, keep going.

  • @emilyw9034
    @emilyw9034 4 года назад +11

    genius. absolute genius

  • @DevyanshBahri
    @DevyanshBahri 3 года назад +5

    _Portrait of a Lady on Fire_ is my favourite movie of all time. A transcendent experience like no other.
    Please watch it if you haven’t.

  • @andreavalentinaperez2734
    @andreavalentinaperez2734 2 года назад +5

    She represents everything that i admire in an artist and also, she is so interesting, articulate and attractive. Sciamma is the kind of woman i want to be around and women like her make me feel glad i'm a lesbian.

  • @solangeboudreau6467
    @solangeboudreau6467 4 года назад +13

    How awesome is this woman!!!!!

  • @Discover_Peace
    @Discover_Peace 3 года назад +3

    The attention to detail is well defined. Celine sciamma has proved it in her stage speech too. How dedicated to present it on English language. My respects🙏🏽

  • @woolf28
    @woolf28 2 года назад +2

    Céline Sciamma is a genius! I respect your fantastic work in the cinema!

  • @CeramicShot
    @CeramicShot 3 года назад +3

    @9:11 Part about scenes as units of desire. This was an amazing lecture.

  • @AkitaMix
    @AkitaMix 3 года назад +3

    I learned a lot about a process of script writing that's so interesting in that short speech alone

  • @jyzhan8252
    @jyzhan8252 4 года назад +35

    I seem to have found the intellectual role model for my daughter

    • @karenmgr
      @karenmgr 4 года назад +8

      sciamma is an absolute genius but PLEASE let your daughter choose lmao

    • @jyzhan8252
      @jyzhan8252 4 года назад

      @@karenmgr I mean intellectually of course

  • @AmiralMable
    @AmiralMable 4 года назад +7

    Brilliant! She is absolutely brilliant.

  • @teodorasilva2279
    @teodorasilva2279 3 года назад +2

    Sciamma is just marvelous!! The lecture is so clear to be understood though I'm no writer. Kudos to Portrait of the Lady on Fire. Looking forward to more screenplay and films to be made her.👍❤️

  • @morqon
    @morqon 4 года назад +14

    This is really excellent, thank you.

  • @CharlotteLeguy
    @CharlotteLeguy 4 года назад +9

    Magnifique, merci Céline !!! 🙏🙏🙏

  • @jallcowasji
    @jallcowasji 2 года назад

    How did I just discover her?! She managed to articulate so effortlessly what I have often felt about the tired convention of characters overcoming obstacles. Thank you for sharing this insightful and meaty lecture.

  • @Alineebastos
    @Alineebastos 4 года назад +17

    People never laugh at her jokes and I always do

    • @helena19479
      @helena19479 3 года назад +2

      I do that too. I like her humor. She's almost always brilliant.

  • @BigBuddhaFilmsUK
    @BigBuddhaFilmsUK 4 года назад +8

    Really useful. Thank you. Will be rewatching this.

  • @angeljones2870
    @angeljones2870 4 года назад +3

    She is so phenomenal and so inspiring and skilled!

  • @harleyquiinnnn
    @harleyquiinnnn 2 года назад +1

    céline sciamma is the embodiment of brilliance

  • @danielsolano5403
    @danielsolano5403 3 года назад +10

    "I just learned about this a few days ago please excuse if I'm bad at this"
    Proceeds to give a great and meaningful and beautifully written speech

  •  2 года назад +1

    Thank you so much, Céline and BAFTA.

  • @leticiamachado6819
    @leticiamachado6819 3 года назад +1

    I've been reading a lot of Juri Alschitz and this fits really well! I adore this movie and to be able to see it with celine's eyes to it, is amazing. Desire, ideas, acting, writing, questioning, analyzing. That's art. She talked about it but is messing with my head ultimately, we tend to look at a role with psychological questions "what the character should do, say, think, WHYY??" That's not enough, not for theater, cinema...

  • @pjsopinion8028
    @pjsopinion8028 2 года назад

    She is absolutely brilliant... I could listen to her talk about this film and her thoughts behind the composition of it for hours! ❤️ Blessings 🙏

  • @levierkey
    @levierkey 2 года назад +2

    I rewatched this lecture recently and since then had that idea of 'being radical with your desires' echoing in my head. Céline said it was her method for writing scripts, but what if we could extrapolate a bit and say that it could also be a method for living life?
    'Find something that hits you accurately, which means - deeply.'
    Or maybe I'm being too philosophical. Anyway, I agree with everyone in the comments saying Céline is a genius. Her films and her outlook have provoked a tremendous amount of thought in me (I don't know if this is English - you tell me (c) Céline), and I can say with no exaggeration that she changed my life.

    • @pjsopinion8028
      @pjsopinion8028 2 года назад +2

      In my opinion, you are not being too philosophical at all. The portion of your comment "Find something that hits you accurately, which means - deeply" touched something in me, and provoked precious introspection in me. I actually love the way your mind works. Blessings 🙏

    • @harleyquiinnnn
      @harleyquiinnnn 2 года назад

      I agree with the previous commentator 🙏🏼

  • @DasKollektiv47
    @DasKollektiv47 2 года назад

    Great lecture! Write without fear, edit without mercy--but let desire lead you.

  • @stephaniebusto5258
    @stephaniebusto5258 4 года назад +15

    Legend

  • @NeilStevensFilms
    @NeilStevensFilms 3 года назад +3

    She is incredible!

  • @spaceinvad0r
    @spaceinvad0r 8 месяцев назад

    So brilliantly insightful ❤❤❤❤

  • @barbarajohnson1442
    @barbarajohnson1442 4 года назад +8

    I am sheltered at home,COVD19, cannot stream the movie yet!!! Theater closed, imagine my frustration. Yet I am learning so much from Celine Sciamma about her artistic process.
    I look forward to it, and to all of her films. Brava!!!

    • @TheFunk79
      @TheFunk79 4 года назад +2

      This film is worth the wait!

    • @barbarajohnson1442
      @barbarajohnson1442 4 года назад +1

      TheFunk79, I have no doubt!!! Thank you.

    • @nitoy12489
      @nitoy12489 4 года назад +1

      Tonight, at midnight, Hulu will release it :o treat ya self :)

    • @barbarajohnson1442
      @barbarajohnson1442 4 года назад +1

      Nitoy12489, you have made my night! Fantastic! Merci!

    • @barbarajohnson1442
      @barbarajohnson1442 4 года назад +1

      And now I have seen it twice! Going for 3rd tonight. Marvelous!!!

  • @baibabecker2209
    @baibabecker2209 4 года назад +2

    Queen. She is such a Queen

  • @MasleyVystupoe
    @MasleyVystupoe 2 года назад

    Thanks for uploading this inspiring and educating lecture. Portrait is a film that blew me away.

  • @orbitalclue3
    @orbitalclue3 4 года назад +7

    Incredible

  • @duelbuster123
    @duelbuster123 4 года назад +6

    thank you legend!!!

  • @fannyguillot9709
    @fannyguillot9709 4 года назад +10

    i'm french and very glad to see that this beautiful piece of art is being spreaded throughout the USA ;)

    • @NoAimGirlKane
      @NoAimGirlKane 4 года назад +2

      Ce que j'adore c'est le soutien outre-Atlantique pour le film, l'équipe et l'acte militant de réaliser/tourner/regarder le Portrait.

    • @VousEtesOdileDeray
      @VousEtesOdileDeray 4 года назад +3

      J'ai l'impression qu'il reçoit beaucoup plus de soutien et d'attention aux US qu'en France... Et tant mieux après tout si le film peut être apprécié à sa juste valeur par le plus grand nombre !

    • @fannyguillot9709
      @fannyguillot9709 4 года назад +2

      @@VousEtesOdileDeray oui mais ça signifie qu'il n'est pas assez à mon goût soutenu en France, hélas il n'a reçu qu'un seul César alors qu'il a été nominé 10 fois...

    • @VousEtesOdileDeray
      @VousEtesOdileDeray 4 года назад +3

      @@fannyguillot9709 c'est clair, mais bon le public français est manifestement pas si ouvert d'esprit que ça (et l'académie des César non plus, mais ça on le savait déjà...)

    • @fannyguillot9709
      @fannyguillot9709 4 года назад

      @@VousEtesOdileDeray oh je vois que tu es aussi abonnée à dimanche à dix heures ! Bienvenue dans le club ;)

  • @picturesbynassah
    @picturesbynassah 4 года назад +3

    Why is she so fucking cool

  • @Luke-cz9tm
    @Luke-cz9tm 4 года назад +3

    7:38 three steps

  • @ravishankarkaushik7823
    @ravishankarkaushik7823 2 года назад +1

    Beautiful.

  • @krishnansrinivasan830
    @krishnansrinivasan830 Год назад

    I had a nice time watching this video :)

  • @page28club58
    @page28club58 3 года назад

    Thank you for this. Is there a video of the full Q&A anywhere?

  • @PercySenna
    @PercySenna 2 года назад +1

    9:07 - the scenes

  • @merrymayma714
    @merrymayma714 3 года назад +2

    20:59! Spider-man backward kiss! >

  • @jordanpardi1516
    @jordanpardi1516 3 года назад +2

    31:30 Nice.

  • @isismeiraa
    @isismeiraa 2 года назад +1

    Her movies literally changed my life...

  • @NehaSharma-2023
    @NehaSharma-2023 4 года назад +9

    ♥️

  • @LouHedges05
    @LouHedges05 4 года назад

    Does anyone know where I can find the script to Portrait?

  • @firealarmism
    @firealarmism 3 года назад +4

    a female genius wedding mind and heart. sharp like a knife, tender like a feather all at once. like a woman. love you

  • @LavineMatos
    @LavineMatos 4 года назад +3

    Would there be a transcript of the lecture?

    • @wansiya
      @wansiya 4 года назад +1

      Lavine Matos on their Website :)

    • @LavineMatos
      @LavineMatos 4 года назад +1

      @@wansiya Thank you, but unfortunately I couldn't find the transcript of Céline's lecture.

    • @wansiya
      @wansiya 4 года назад +15

      @@LavineMatos www.bafta.org/media-centre/transcripts/screenwriters-lecture-series-2019-celine-sciamma

    • @LavineMatos
      @LavineMatos 4 года назад +2

      @@wansiya Thank you very much! Thank you for your kindness.

    • @wansiya
      @wansiya 4 года назад +3

      @@LavineMatos Glad to help :)

  • @turquoise1997
    @turquoise1997 2 года назад

    17:27 she is jocular😁

  • @viktoriyarts
    @viktoriyarts 4 года назад

    0:39 did she said "bitch"? If yes lol :D

    • @carolinavega2464
      @carolinavega2464 3 года назад +1

      she said speech, lol

    • @harleyquiinnnn
      @harleyquiinnnn 2 года назад

      @@carolinavega2464 i actually think she said bitch lmao... but i'm not 100% sure

  • @geardestroy
    @geardestroy 4 года назад

    I hear she is a misandrist

    • @TheFunk79
      @TheFunk79 4 года назад +22

      That's what anyone calls a feminist, when they are very much two different things. I've seen Sciamma give many interviews, and she shows the same deference and respect to male interviewers as this one. As a filmmaker, she prefers to write stories about women as she can relate to the perspective, and while there are many women in her crew, there are also men in her film crew she collaborates with consistently on each film.

    • @harleyquiinnnn
      @harleyquiinnnn 2 года назад +2

      Also, labeling someone as a 'misandrist' just because they want to give women more space to create because they've been underrepresented for years, while no one would call a male director a 'misognist' because there are more men in his team and lead roles is hilarious. Because that would make every male director a 'misognist'. While she thankfully gives many women place to participate in her projects, they're still chronically underrepresented in the industry. So your comment is hilarious to say the least.