The Lady in the Portrait
Dec 20 2017
•2h 34m
•Drama
An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint.
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Melvil Poupaud
Jean Denis Attiret
Fan Bingbing
Impératrice Ulanara
Wu Yue
Yi
King Shih-Chieh
Chen
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