In her video essay on Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Praveena Javvadi details the visual logic of the film’s direction. This essay illustrates how, through her painterly, portrait-like shots, Sciamma subtly shifts between the perspectives of the two lead characters, Marianne (Noémie Merlant) and Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), thereby guiding the audience to see the events of the story through their perspectives.