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Artemesia

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Sexy young Italian actress Valentina Cervi, stars in Artemesia which tells the fascinating, extrodinary story of the first female painter to break into the Italian art world with her exotic images. Seventeen-year-old Artemesia inherits a passion for painting from her father, Orazio (Michel Serrault), a well known painter in the Florentine tradition. Considered forbidden, a female painter has neither the right to attend classes at the Academy, nor to ask male models to pose nude. Artemesia wants to do both, and is persistent in her ambition. This anatomical quest mingles in an impalpable way with the unleashing of her repressed sexual inhibitions.

Artemesia becomes both attracted to and troubled by Agostino Tassi (Miki Manojlovic), an artist who defies traditions and studies the latest techniques in the art of painting. Eventually, Artemesia convinces her father to let her study with Agostino. Little by little, the relationship between master and pupil takes another form. Agostino is captivated by Artemesia's youth, beauty and talent. She is more and more fascinated by the painter. Artemesia's life will never be the same after their first passionate and fierce love-making.

Agostino inspires her to paint a deeply moving painting, Judith beheading Holophernes. She is Judith, knife in hand, he is Holopherne, prone, surprised by death. The body is not just an immobile motif that one observes in order to paint, but a living place of desire, suffering and pleasure...

Written and directed by Agnes Merlet.