La Belle Noiseuse

La Belle Noiseuse
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Directed by	Jacques Rivette
Written by	Pascal Bonitzer Christine Laurent Jacques Rivette
Based on	Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu by Honoré de Balzac
Starring	Michel Piccoli Jane Birkin Emmanuelle Béart Marianne Denicourt
Music by	Igor Stravinsky
Cinematography	William Lubtchansky
Edited by	Nicole Lubtchansky
Production company	Pierre Grise Productions
Release dates	4 September 1991 (1991-09-04)
Running time	237 minutes
Country	France Switzerland
Language	French / English

La Belle Noiseuse is a 1991 film directed by Jacques Rivette and starring Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, and Emmanuelle Béart. Its title means "The Beautiful Troublemaker".

The film is loosely adapted from the short story The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac and also includes elements from The Liar, The Figure in the Carpet, and The Aspern Papers by Henry James.^[1]

Plot

A reclusive famous painter, Frenhofer (Piccoli), lives quietly with his wife and former model (Birkin) in a rambling château in rural Languedoc-Roussillon. When a young artist visits him with his girlfriend, Marianne (Béart), Frenhofer is inspired to commence work once more on a painting he long ago abandoned—La Belle Noiseuse—using Marianne as his model. The film painstakingly explores Frenhofer's creative rebirth. It uses lengthy real-time takes of the artist's hand (provided by Bernard Dufour) working on paper and canvas.

Reception

The film won the Grand Prix at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

The film had a good critical reception, and occasioned much comment on Béart's frank onscreen nudity and Rivette's characteristic use of an extreme running time.

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert added the film to his Great Movies collection in April 2009.^[3]

Alternative version

Rivette used alternate takes from the film and made changes in the scene order to produce a 125-minute version, La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento, for television; it was also released theatrically in 1993.

Cast

Michel Piccoli as Édouard Frenhofer
Jane Birkin as Liz
Emmanuelle Béart as Marianne
Marianne Denicourt as Julienne
David Bursztein as Nicolas
Gilles Arbona as Porbus
Marie Belluc as Magali
Marie-Claude Roger as Françoise
Leïla Remili as a maid
Daphne Goodfellow as a tourist
Susan Robertson as a tourist
Bernard Dufour as the painter's hand

References

↑ http://www.lesinrocks.com/2007/03/19/cinema/actualite-cinema/entretien-jacques-rivette-lart-secret-1165507/
↑ "Festival de Cannes: La Belle Noiseuse". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
↑ "La Belle Noiseuse (1991)". Chicago Sun-Times.

External links

La Belle Noiseuse at the Internet Movie Database
Divertimento at the Internet Movie Database

Films by Jacques Rivette

filmography bibliography

Fool's Mate (1956) Paris Belongs to Us (1960) The Nun (1966) L'amour fou (1969) Out 1 (1971) Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) Duelle (1976) Noroît (1976) Merry-Go-Round (1981) Le Pont du Nord (1981) Love on the Ground (1984) Hurlevent (1985) Gang of Four (1989) La Belle Noiseuse (1991) Joan the Maiden (1994) Up, Down, Fragile (1995) Une aventure de Ninon (1995) Top Secret (1998) Va savoir (2001) The Story of Marie and Julien (2003) The Duchess of Langeais (2007) Around a Small Mountain (2009)

Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix

1967–1989	Accident (1967) I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967) Ådalen 31 (1969) Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Johnny Got His Gun (1971) Taking Off (1971) Solaris (1972) The Mother and the Whore (1973) Fantastic Planet (1973) Arabian Nights (1974) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975) Cría Cuervos (1976) The Marquise of O (1976) Bye Bye Monkey (1978) The Shout (1978) Siberiade (1979) Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) Light Years Away (1981) The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) Diary for My Children (1984) Birdy (1985) The Sacrifice (1986) Repentance (1987) A World Apart (1988) Cinema Paradiso (1989) Too Beautiful for You (1989)

1990–2009	Tilaï (1990) The Sting of Death (1990) La Belle Noiseuse (1991) The Stolen Children (1992) Faraway, So Close! (1993) To Live (1994) Burnt by the Sun (1994) Ulysses' Gaze (1995) Breaking the Waves (1996) The Sweet Hereafter (1997) Life Is Beautiful (1998) Humanité (1999) Devils on the Doorstep (2000) The Piano Teacher (2001) The Man Without a Past (2002) Uzak (2003) Oldboy (2004) Broken Flowers (2005) Flanders (2006) The Mourning Forest (2007) Gomorrah (2008) A Prophet (2009)

2010–present	Of Gods and Men (2010) Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) The Kid with a Bike (2011) Reality (2012) Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) The Wonders (2014) Son of Saul (2015)

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