Master list: Translated interviews / articles / Q&As with Céline Sciamma, Adèle Haenel, Noémie Merlant (and others)
Last updated: 4 February 2025
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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. 😉
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