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La Belle Noiseuse

starring: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle BĂ©art, Marianne Denicourt, David Bursztein
directed by: Jacques Rivette

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: La Belle
EAN: 9781567303537
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1567303536
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 240 minutes
Sales Rank: 32665
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1991



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Studio: New Yorker Films Video Release Date: 09/19/2006 Run time: 240 minutes

Amazon.com:
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 others. 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 BĂ©art), 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. BĂ©art, 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



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Emmanuelle BĂ©art is the quintessence of a beautiful woman
"La Belle Noiseuse" is a lovely four-hour film about an artist and his model, and men and women. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Pretentious yes - but it is a work of art
This loses a star for its sheer length, at 229 minutes its too long. As with a lot of French films ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - La belle noiseuse
Too much boring talk from the artist, in what could have been an interesting story. But with a totally ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Despite its length and lingering pace, an astonishing film about the artistic process..
French New Wave director Jacques Rivette is considered to be even more experimental than Jean-Luc Godard. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Art Work
This very very French film about an aging artist finding renewal and inspiration in painting a beautiful and ... Read More

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