La Belle Noiseuse

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Plot: La Belle Noiseuse is a thrilling and unconventional drama about the responsibility of an artist to his vision and the conflicts that arise when such responsibility is perceived as a threat to o...( read more read more... )thers. Michel Piccoli (Le Doulos) delivers one of his finest, most lived-in performances as Edouard Frenhofer, a famous painter living with his artist wife Liz (Jane Birkin) on a spacious estate in the French countryside. Frenhofer has lacked inspiration for a decade and has given up on painting. The idea behind his unfinished masterpiece, La Belle Noiseuse ("The Beautiful Troublemaker"), has been seemingly unattainable for a decade; Liz was the original model for it, and Frenhofer's exhaustion with the project has an emotional parallel to his dispassionate relationship with her.

Along comes a rising artist, Nicolas (David Bursztein), who suggests that his girlfriend, Marianne (Emmanuelle Béart), a writer, could help Frenhofer jumpstart the painting's completion. From this point, most of La Belle Noiseuse becomes a remarkable, seemingly unedited and privileged look at the development of a bond between artist and muse. Béart, fiercely brilliant, spends the majority of the film nude and continually molded into sometimes-painful positions as Frenhofer struggles--sketch after sketch, paint upon paint--to find something beyond the obviousness of Marianne's body. As the two struggle to meet each other halfway, Liz and Nicolas feel marginalized and jealous, putting pressure on Frenhofer to disregard such personal concerns or give in to them. Adapted by French New Wave master Jacques Rivette from a story by Honore de Balzac, the lengthy La Belle Noiseuse is fascinated by the artistic process; it is itself a patient process of watching ideas and aesthetic courage reveal themselves in the face of extraneous aversion. --Tom Keogh

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  • jwnewbould
    jwnewbould
    3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 8, 2008
    French hottie Emmanuelle Beart bares all for the sake of art. Now I don't know much about art but I know what I like!














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  • lucienecosta08
    lucienecosta08
    5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 22, 2007
    Emmanuelle Beart ja seria razao suficiente. Mas o Rivette foi se tornando um de meus diretores favoritos. Esse foi o primeiro dele a que assisti. A representação da arte aqui é irresistível.
  • muldz14
    muldz14
    3.5 Stars
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    September 3, 2007
    Ladies be warned mainly a guy flick as Beart is nude in 90% of the movie. Not that im complaining :).
  • catlyst
    catlyst
    3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 15, 2007
    the realistic scratchy sound of a paintbrush repeated ad noiseuseum grows on you, especially considering what, i mean who, the subject is
  • jsd35
    jsd35
    2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    June 14, 2007
    I hoped for so much more from this film than I got. I wanted to feel the artist at work, but instead I felt my butt writhe uncomfortably in my seat thorughout the long directors cut of this film.

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