The Lady in the Portrait

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.

• Charles de MeauxDirector
• Charles de MeauxScreenplay
• Michel FesslerScreenplay

• Fan BingbingImpératrice Ulanara
• Melvil PoupaudJean Denis Attiret
• Wu YueYi
• King Shih-chiehChen
• Huang JueQing Long
• Thibault de MontalembertCastiglione
• Féodor AtkinePaul
• Li RuixueFan Ye