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'''''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 the nineteenth-century French writer [[Honoré de Balzac]]. |
'''''La Belle Noiseuse''''' (''Divertimento'') 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 the nineteenth-century French writer [[Honoré de Balzac]]. |
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The plot concerns a famous but reclusive painter, Frenhofer (Piccoli), who lives quietly with his wife and former model (Birkin) in a large château in rural [[Provence]]. 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, using lengthy real-time takes of the artist's hand (provided by Bernard Dufour) working on the canvas. |
The plot concerns a famous but reclusive painter, Frenhofer (Piccoli), who lives quietly with his wife and former model (Birkin) in a large château in rural [[Provence]]. 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, using lengthy real-time takes of the artist's hand (provided by Bernard Dufour) working on the canvas. |
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| Directed by | Jacques Rivette |
| Written by | Pascal Bonitzer Christine Laurent Jacques Rivette (freely based on Honoré de Balzac's short story "Le chef d'oeuvre inconnu") |
| Starring | Michel Piccoli Jane Birkin Emmanuelle Béart Marianne Denicourt |
| Music by | Igor Stravinsky |
Release dates | September 4, 1991 |
Running time | 240 min |
| Country | France / Switzerland |
| Language | French / English |
La Belle Noiseuse (Divertimento) 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 the nineteenth-century French writer Honoré de Balzac.
The plot concerns a famous but reclusive painter, Frenhofer (Piccoli), who lives quietly with his wife and former model (Birkin) in a large château in rural Provence. 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, using lengthy real-time takes of the artist's hand (provided by Bernard Dufour) working on the canvas.
The film had a positive critical reception, and occasioned much comment on Béart's frank onscreen nudity and Rivette's characteristic use of an extreme running time.
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 - Édouard Frenhofer
- Jane Birkin - Liz
- Emmanuelle Béart - Marianne
- Marianne Denicourt - Julienne
- David Bursztein - Nicolas
- Gilles Arbona - Porbus
- Marie Belluc - Magali
- Marie-Claude Roger - Françoise
- Leïla Remili - Maid
- Daphne Goodfellow - A tourist
- Susan Robertson - A tourist
- Bernard Dufour - The painter's hand
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External link
- Divertimento at IMDb