Metamorphoseon libri (Metamorphoses) influenced Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)

Céline Sciamma's film reads Ovid inside the story. Héloïse, Marianne and Sophie read the story of Orpheus and Eurydice from the Metamorphoses aloud and argue about why Orpheus looked back, and the film's ending is built on that choice: the poet's choice rather than the lover's.