Review of Portrait of a Lady on Fire

I really liked this film visually in terms of the scenery and the way the characters were posed in the scenes. But I was not convinced by the relationship of the main characters. I was always conscious that they were actors playing roles and I think it was the way they were placed on set to make appealing images that contributed to this. Somehow the beauty of the imagery reduced the plausibility of the action as it was too staged to seem genuine. It was like looking at carefully arranged photographs rather than watching a movie.