Like all great works of art, the film has a purity of line and structure as it plays out its theme.
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11/12/07
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:21
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.1/10
Runtime: 4 hrs
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli), a renowned French artist, hasn't lifted his brush in years. But when he meets the stunningly beautiful girlfriend (Emmanuelle Beart) of a young painter visiting his... [More]
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Beart, Jane Birkin, Marianne Denicourt
Director: Jacques Rivette
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Reviews for La Belle Noiseuse
The characters are unsympathetic, the circumstances are hard to relate to, the dialogue is laboured and the running time brutal. But there is also a surfeit of intelligence and beauty (in technical filmmaking terms) in Rivette's difficult film.
09/16/03
Obviously, 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.
01/01/00
In 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.
09/19/04
No review available.
11/01/05
Rivette 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.
01/01/00
What's good about the film is the sense of real evolution, of believable character change, instead of the Speedy Gonzalez transformations movie characters usually experience. What's also good is a realistic feel for the act of creation.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
06/30/05
A four-hour French masterpiece about the creative process of an artist
07/19/03
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.
01/26/06
The underlying ideas may be a little droopy, but they're staged in such exacting, private terms that they are redeemed.
01/01/00
Top CriticI won't explain what happens with the masterpiece; even at four hours, the film cooks up a certain amount of suspense and surprise.
09/27/04
By methodically examining the rigors and contemplation that go into creating great art, French New Wave master Jacques Rivette, has created something of a masterpiece himself.
06/27/02
Rivette's superb sense of rhythm and mise en scene never falters, and the plot has plenty of twists.
11/12/07
Top CriticNow that's why we go to movies.
01/01/00
Jacques Rivette's much praised Cannes Grand Prize winner vacillates between genuine insight and didactic mystique-of-the-artist bull****.
11/06/06
No review available.
12/17/03
One of the best movies about painting.
07/15/04
No review available.
07/30/02
Some movies are worlds that we can sink into, and La Belle Noiseuse is one of them.
01/01/00
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