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La Belle Noiseuse
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Film Description
Shot in Academy ratio, showing that you don't need widescreen to be visually stunning. Time Magazine said it's 'the most meticulous and seductive depiction in movies of the hard work of making art' and it's true. An utterly engrossing film that won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1991 along with numerous other prizes, it confirmed Rivette, for those who needed it, as one of the great film makers.
Film Information
| Director | Jacques Rivette | ||||
| Starring | Emmanuelle Beart, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli
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| Genre | World Cinema
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| Country | France | Language | FRENCH | Year | 1991 |
DVD Extras
Two discs; Interview with Jacques Rivette; Interviews with co-writers Pascal Bonitzer and Christine Laurent; Theatrical Trailer; Dolby Digital 2.0
Technical Details
| Certificate | 15 | Length | 228 mins | Label | ART-E | ||
| Cat No | ART038DVD | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | 4:3 | ||||
| Subtitles | English. | ||||||
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Review by Mrs R. Harper on 21st March 2001
Engrossing study of a work in progress and its effect on all the characters.
Review by David Parkinson on 13th May 2003
Critic turned auteur, Jacques Rivette has never been one to hurry. L'Amour Fou runs for four hours and 12 minutes. Out One lasts for 13 hours, with the `abridged' version, Out One: Spectre, clocking in around 270 minutes. Even the more accessible Celine and Julie Go Boating (192 mins) and Secret Defence (170 mins) were played out in their own good time. But rarely have 240 minutes been better spent than in the company of this magisterial study of the agonising process of creation.
Basically, this is an art-house investigation into the Indecent Proposal idea, as a young artist offers up his girlfriend to spark the inspiration of a painter who hasn’t worked in the decade since abandoning a nude study of his wife, `La Belle Noiseuse’ (Quebecois slang for a woman who drives men to distraction).
What follows is a battle of wills between Michel Piccoli’s aging artist, spurned spouse Jane Birken and reluctant model, Emmanuelle Béart. The marital duel is the more emotionally intense. But Piccoli’s determination to capture the essence of the proud Béart is the more compelling, as it’s enacted in real time in the tactile terms of ink sketches, charcoal outlines and watercolour washes.
If the hand of Bernard Dufour provides the on-screen finesse, then Piccoli supplies the artistic passion, as he contemplates Béart’s flesh not only as an artistic challenge, but also as a means of freeing himself from Birkin’s stifling affection and, thus, of reviving his career. Rarely has so cerebral a film been so brutal.
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