The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife in his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start working again on a painting called 'La Belle Noiseuse', which he gave up a long time ago. And he wants Marianne as a model. The ensuing creative process will change the characters' lives. It will become a struggle for truth and meaning, and the question about the l... (Full plot summary below)
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The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife in his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start working again on a painting called 'La Belle Noiseuse', which he gave up a long time ago. And he wants Marianne as a model. The ensuing creative process will change the characters' lives. It will become a struggle for truth and meaning, and the question about the limits of art will arise.
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| Time OutGeoff AndrewAs 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. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullIn this molasses-slow four-hour drama, Jacques Rivette proves that he's got an understanding of fine art, but a minimal one of the art of movies. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt has been a good long while since I have felt the presence of Evil so manifestly demonstrated as in the first appearance of Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs. |
| Dallas Morning NewsChris VognarLa Belle Noiseuse will immerse you in a one-of-a-kind portrait of the artistic process. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordThis is a movie about the making of a masterpiece which is itself a masterpiece, one of the truly great movies about artistic creation. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksObviously, the film is aimed at a fairly narrow audience -- primarily the art community. But the passion felt during those painting-and-posing sequences reaches a much broader spectrum. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzRivette is a quality director who has the skills and knowledge to tell such a non-action story and never allow the story to be anything but an honest intellectual effort. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonIn its own way this sensual, granular experience is just as pure and obsessive as Rivette's less hospitable masterpieces, and almost as mysterious. |
| The PlaylistAndy CrumpLong takes, slow zooms, and deep focus give 'La Belle Noiseuse' a sense of disciplined stillness, all the better to record the meticulous efforts of its two chief subjects as they make art out of life. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonThe underlying ideas may be a little droopy, but they're staged in such exacting, private terms that they are redeemed. |
