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La Belle Noiseuse

1991 · 3h 58m · Unrated Drama
Directed by Jacques Rivette

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Overview

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.

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Rivette's superb sense of rhythm and mise en scene never falters, and the plot has plenty of twists.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

As impeccably shot as its subject deserves, the film is more accessible than most of Rivette's work, with characteristically playful passing nods to the relationship between life and performance.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

Hypnotically beautiful.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

Some movies are worlds that we can sink into, and La Belle Noiseuse is one of them.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

The underlying ideas may be a little droopy, but they're staged in such exacting, private terms that they are redeemed.

Hal Hinson, Washington Post

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