Le Portrait Interdit, de Charles de Meaux

Anna Sanders Films (Consortium Museum's film production company) produced The Forbidden Portrait in 2017. A film that tells the story of Jesuit Jean-Denis Attiret, a painter at the Imperial Court of China in the 18th century, who is given the honorary task of painting the portrait of the former concubine turned empress, Ulanara. The electric relationship between the painter and his model is caught between the constraints of the court and the most extreme cultural differences. The Consortium Museum bookshop will be at Le Maquis for the evening, with a selection of books from their publisher Les presses du réel.