La Belle Noiseuse
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Movie Reviews of La Belle Noiseuse
Movie Review: Best film about art and the artist ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I try to watch this movie once a year. It is a gorgeous, slow moving thing. The better part of the movie is taken up with the battle between Frehofer and the form he is trying to bring to life on the canvas, with Emmanuelle Beart as his model. He gives up... she gives up... but they plow on through. The story is unsullied by any erotic (or at least, overtly erotic) connection between the two. But there is none of the neurotic histrionics and unrequited sacrifices of the usual films about artist: there is just the hard, greuling, work of having a vision and getting it right.
This is freely based on the story "The Unknown Masterpiece" by Balzac. If only more movies "freely based" on a story could be as fine as this one. Knowing the story, which is a short novella, may actually add to the appreciation of the film and the character of Frenhofer.
Movie Review: Superb
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not sure what the person before me knows about French cinema and the history of this film in particular but before posting comments that border sheer ignorance PLEASE do some research. This true masterpiece of a film was shot in 1.33 and that is how La Belle Noiseuse it was shown during the Cannes film festival. This is the prefered original aspect ratio (perhaps some have forgotten that not all films are supposed to be seen in widescreen, many were shot in an academy ratio of 1.33). Though La Belle Noiseuse is a modern film, just like Godard often does, Rivette has chosen a ratio that fits best his vision.With this said the length of the film has nothing to do with the artistic merits it conveys. This is a strong, utterly sophisticated, yet bold and original film that reaches the very core of the creative process artists go through. Exceptional work!!
Movie Review: La Belle Noiseuse
Summary: 5 Stars
Rivette's extraordinary drama about a famous artist who feels his well of talent has dried up examines the mysteries and passions that attend the artistic process, and the obsessive intimacy that often develops between painter and model. In a role that demanded a solid, mature, weighty presence, Piccoli is magnificent as Edouard, while Beart is simply ravishing in an equally demanding, robust performance. Expertly and patiently directed by Rivette, who homes in on the mundane details of creating a masterly artwork--the painstaking applications of ink and oil, the methodical refinement of technique--"Noiseuse" is, quite simply, an enthralling experience. If a four hour viewing time deters you, by all means watch it in two parts.Movie Review: the view
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best film on art I have ever seen. It unfolds in near real-time for the characters and the viewers. Yes it is slow, deliberate, and calculated but it is far from predictable or boring. People who have never experienced the multiple levels of creating art in some form will be treated to the simulated experience of the characters in this film. It isn't exciting in the sense of action but rather like having something dawn on you. I have returned to this film several times over the last 14 years and it never ceases to amaze me. It will touch what creates inside of you. Enjoy the view.Movie Review: One of the most sumptuous and powerful films about art ever made!
Summary: 5 Stars
Jacques Rivette's sublime masterpiece deals with the exploration of the artistic process in terms of its exploitation for destructiveness and its transcendent power. Here we have the confrontation of an inactive painter, and a model, where we will witness the initial antagonism through a true escalade of wary hostility, driving one each other to dangerous limits.
This film deserved the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.