The Lady in the Portrait (2017)
Original title: Le Portrait interdit
The Lady in the Portrait is a 2017 French-language drama movie directed by Charles de Meaux, with a running time of 1h 34m. It stars Fan Bingbing, Melvil Poupaud and Wu Yue.
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.