Overview
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.
Cast
- Fan Bingbing as Impératrice Ulanara
- Melvil Poupaud as Jean Denis Attiret
- Wu Yue as Yi
- King Shih-chieh as Chen
- Huang Jue as Qing Long
- Thibault de Montalembert as Castiglione
- Féodor Atkine as Paul
- Li Ruixue as Fan Ye