Does Portrait de la jeune fille en feu have any influence in China?

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu is an excellent work by female directors. According to the scholar Professor Dai Jinhua, this film not only expresses the passionate love between two women delicately and poetically, but also explores the possibility of some equal practice in emotion and interpersonal relationship with the help of a gay story.

In this exploration of equality, it is not only reflected in the lens language, but also an interesting place, that is "staring". The gaze relationship between the so-called "artist" and "muse" is reversed in this film, and the gaze becomes mutual. It's not who's watching who's being watched, but they stare at each other. "Let me stare at you like this."