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Art style: L'Amour interdit - French cinema. Vertical 9:16 cinematic medium shot. MARIE ORLOFF alone, centered in frame. Preserve Marie’s EXACT established face from the character reference: same facial proportions, eyes, nose, lips, age, blonde straight hair and thin round gold optical glasses. Do not beautify or redesign her face. She wears exactly the established outfit: brown tweed jacket, lilac ruffled blouse, fitted red pencil skirt, opaque dark forest-green tights, black Mary Jane shoes, brown leather shoulder bag and the distinctive antique green rhombus brooch. EXACT SAME photography gallery location and lighting as the previous Noé-and-Marie shot: large dark-framed windows on the LEFT, cool blue January evening outside, warm subdued gallery lighting, herringbone parquet floor, black leather bench behind her, framed black-and-white photography and softly blurred elegant guests in the distant background. Marie has already stopped beside Noé, but NOÉ IS OFF CAMERA. She looks slightly toward Noé off camera with warm, mischievous, affectionate amusement, as if teasing a very close friend. A small spontaneous smile. Lively eyes. Slightly breathless after rushing across the gallery. One hand makes a small natural conversational gesture, as if she is joking about him finally earning some money. Marie is the ONLY foreground character. No other person beside her. No person entering foreground. Noé and Adrien are not visible. 50mm French-cinema framing, natural skin texture, restrained realistic expression, shallow believable depth of field, subtle film grain, warm practical light against cool blue evening shadows. No text. No glamour. No fashion pose. No exaggerated comedy. No caricature. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image in the following art style: Ultra-realistic contemporary French cinema. Intimate, elegant and emotionally restrained. Naturalistic performances and authentic human imperfections. Realistic skin texture, natural faces, subtle expressions and body language. Cinematic 50–85mm lens language, shallow but believable depth of field, soft practical lighting, warm amber and candle-gold highlights contrasted with subtle cool blue-grey shadows. Gentle cinematic grain, slightly muted colors, natural contrast and realistic exposure. Slow, deliberate camera movement and observational framing. Frequent medium close-ups, close-ups of eyes and hands, over-the-shoulder dialogue shots, negative space and quiet visual tension. Characters should feel photographed rather than posed. Parisian contemporary atmosphere, sophisticated but never glossy. Locations should feel real, lived-in and culturally authentic. The visual storytelling relies on glances, pauses, physical distance, small gestures and unspoken attraction. Romantic and sensual tension without visual clichés. Avoid Hollywood blockbuster aesthetics, fashion-commercial lighting, beauty filters, plastic skin, excessive bokeh, oversaturated colors, melodramatic acting, theatrical posing, music-video glamour and stereotypical LGBTQ visual symbols. Overall feeling: a modern French auteur romantic drama — intimate, intelligent, sensual, understated and photorealistic. Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.