La Belle Noiseuse (RARE)
La Belle Noiseuse (RARE)
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Jacques Rivette's ambitious masterpiece explores the artistic process in terms of both its transcendent power and its potential for exploitation and destructivness. The core of the film is the confrontation between Frenhofer, a renowned but inactive painter, and a model (played by Emmanuelle Beart). It begins in wary hostility, escalates into a pitched battle of wills, and ends as a true collaboration, with each driving the other to dangerous limits. "One of the finest films ever made about art" (Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune). Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Cinematography by William Lubtchansky. Loosely inspired by the Balzac short story The Unknown Masterpiece. With Michel Piccoli and Bernard Dufour. In French with Englis h Jacques Rivette---France/Switzerland---1990---240 mins.

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   | JohnH#1

Piccoli and Beart comport themselves well, but that's about it. Glacial pace. I could only take so many minutes of a disembodied hand scratching sketches with a pen. Simple story that could have been told in two hours instead of four. (I guess Rivette realized that and reworked a shorter version.) I know that Kurosawa loved it and other greater minds than mine have praised it, but I couldn't sense any profundity. Rivette must have been a Jekyll and Hyde director. Besides Noiseuwe he made the, to me, utterly incomprehensible Celine and Julie go boating which is more baffling than Noiseuse. But he also turned out Joan the maid and The Duchess of Langeais, two films that held my interest from start to finish, so I know that he could appeal to ordinary mortals.

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