La Belle Noiseuse
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Movie Reviews of La Belle Noiseuse
Movie Review: A film for grownups
Summary: 5 Stars
Emmanuelle Béart, is used to being the object of desire, one of the most beautiful women, especially in motion. This film slowly and delicately takes the viewer into a different reality where what was seen to be extraordinary is immobilized and captured and transformed into the overly familiar. A space where if love is to exist it must be based on the beauty of the spirit within.Movie Review: Beauty Its Own Reward
Summary: 5 Stars
Rivette not only takes us inside an artist's patient - and impatient - method, he shows us how the search for beauty, collaboration and setting aside the ego can transform a life. This is a long but never tedious exploration of these ideas. Some may find the "twist" of the ending dissatisfying, but it's in keeping with the notion that sometimes the process matters more than the product.Movie Review: masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
easily one of the best films of the 1990's. beautifully shot and acted. emmanuelle beart giving a brilliant performance in what must be an extremely difficult role to play. i've done my share of painting and this film captures the process dead on. a truly unique film from one of the masters of cinema.Movie Review: "He wanted to paint me because he loved me. He stopped painting me because he loved me"
Summary: 4 Stars
"La Belle Noiseuse", directed by Jacques Rivette, is a splendid albeit admittedly extremely long film that manages to make the spectator understand the possibilities and dangers that are distinctive of art. An extremely good painter can bare the soul of his subject, but that is not always a good thing, specially if the artist's ruthless eye concentrates on the worse moral traits of his model. When is it time to stop? And can a real artist betray himself and his art and not paint what he is seeing?
That is the problem Edouard Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) faced, when he had to choose between his art and his wife. Frenhofer, an extremely famous artist, decided to stop painting a portrait called "La Belle Noiseuse", because he knew that his model, his wife Liz (Jane Birkin), would hate the results. According to Liz, "He wanted to paint me because he loved me. He stopped painting me because he loved me".
Many years later, Frenhofer gets another chance to finish his painting, thanks to the visit of an admirer, a young painter named Nicolas (David Bursztein). Nicolas suggests that his beautiful girlfriend, Marianne (Emmanuelle Béart), could be the new nude model for "La Belle Noiseuse". Frenhofer loves the idea, as does Liz. Even Marianne, mad at first at Nicolas for his suggestion, ends up embracing the challenge. However, as days go by and Frenhofer and Marianne become immersed in a world of their own, Nicolas and Liz start to feel restless, abandoned. They know that the new painting will make a difference, and that things will never be the same between them and their loved ones. But can they do something? And will it be enough?
Of course, the answers to those questions don't really matter, and you will discover them soon enough if you watch this film. What is important, then? In my opinion, the director wants to show us the process of creation through the eyes of an artist and his model, and the hard choices that sometimes must sometimes be made in order to create a real work of art. Is it worth it? And how much of himself and others should the artist be willing to risk? Those are, from my point of view, the real questions that "La Belle Noiseuse" makes you ask yourself.
On the whole, I can say that I really liked this film, but that I don't recommend it for everybody. If you are just looking for an engaging movie that will entertaing you and make you laugh, "La Belle Noiseuse" is not for you. On the other hand, if you are in the mood for a relatively little known jewel that will amaze and disturb you, making you think, watch this dvd.
Belen Alcat
Movie Review: Art Work
Summary: 4 Stars
This very very French film about an aging artist finding renewal and inspiration in painting a beautiful and difficult young woman is probably the most detailed depiction of the creative process and the interaction between artist and model ever attempted. You may find it overlong and boring or completely fascinating, depending upon your patience with the leisurely pace and the oh so French talk about relationships, metaphysics and whatnot.
I found no such boredom in watching the difficulty of creation because of the fine portrayal by Michel Piccoli of the irrascible and tasking artist but even more so by the object of his interest, the exquisite work of art that is Beart. If a couple of hours of viewing the divine Emanuelle in the nude is too much for you, so be it, but it'll do for me. Interestingly, the long exposure of her beautiful body allows the viewer to begin to see her as the artist does, as shape and texture, surfaces, planes and form. There is also the effect of the artist's invasive exposure and objectification upon the subject. This is the central fascination of this film, less so the cryptic and enigmatic dialogue. The artist and model struggle and the outcome of the struggle is change and re-examination for both. Something different for those who like different.