La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker) -- Rivette (1991)

LA BELLE NOISEUSE -- Jacques Rivette (1991)



(AKA The Beautiful Troublemaker)



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Rivette's masterwork. A prolonged meditation

on art amid the glories of a Provencal summer.

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Camera: William Lubtchansky

Cast: Michel Piccoli......Edouard Frenhofer

Jane Birkin.........Liz

Emmanuelle Beart....Marianne

Marianne Denicourt..Julienne

David Bursztein.....Nicolas

Gilles Arbona.......Porbus



Plot Summary (IMDB): The former famous painter Frenhofer

lives quietly with his wife on his countryside residence

in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits

him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start

again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle

Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model. The now starting

creative process changes life for everyone. It is a struggle

for truth, life and sense, and the question where the limits

of art are or whether art is limitless.



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Comments by Eric Barker (IMDB):



"La Belle Noiseuse" is one of the most unusual films of our

time, or any other, a four hour excursion into the convoluted,

and sometimes scary, process of creating a work of art. A

low-key film that makes all of its points casually,

"La Belle Noiseuse" never tells the viewer how to feel or

think about its events and characters, but gives suggestions

instead, with a line of realistic dialogue, or the length of

a shot, or an unexpected closeup. This is the modus operandi

for most of the great French films, and here, director Jacques

Rivette outdoes himself and the majority of his contemporaries.



The film captures several salient features of painting, and of

viewing a finished work in a gallery or museum. Rivette lingers

on the artist Frenhofer's hand, and his pen and brush strokes,

to show the chaotic and unpredictable way a portrait comes

together, revealing the artistic mind as no other film I know

of. Each finished sketch is a revelation, because it only

partially resembles the subject, and shows Frenhofer's grasping

for something more than just a simple nude figure



Gradually, as Frenhofer works and studies his subject, Marianne,

she becomes a collaborator, pushing and challenging him as much

as he provokes her with his silences and his brutal poses.

Remarkably, Rivette touches upon all the intricacies of this

transition by throwing traditional cinematic pacing out the

window. He gives each moment of change in both artist and model

its due, and that simply takes awhile.



"La Belle Noiseuse" is not a film for everybody, and especially

not for those seeking an entertaining weekend diversion. As with

many great paintings, and films, viewers have to give up their

resistance and relax into what the artist is showing them, which

is never simply about the surface of a thing or person or situation.

The artist who is truly plugged-in to the currents of life often

winds up showing us things we don't understand, or more often,

what we don't want to know, because he or she has the patience to

look beyond the surface, and to ignore the chatter of polite society.

As a result, many artists like Frenhofer are frustrating people to

know, because what they do ultimately upsets the comfortable illusions

of the world around them, themselves included.



Thus the title, which is generally translated as "the beautiful

troublemaker," may not only refer to Marianne, but to Frenhofer

as well. The ultimate object of a work of art is to help us see

in a new way, whether the perspective is disturbing, or revealing

of an aspect of beauty we never previously considered. By any

estimate, "La Belle Noiseuse" fulfills these aims many times over.



Michel Piccoli gives one of his very best performances as the

self-absorbed, obsessed Frenhofer, and Emmanuel Beart is given

the rare opportunity to transcend her mere physical beauty and

give us several glimpses into the psyche that Frenhofer is trying

to capture on canvas.



A one-of-a-kind film, beautifully photographed and edited.



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