- La Belle Noiseuse
Infobox_Film
name = La Belle Noiseuse
caption = Region 1 DVD cover
imdb_id = 0101428
writer =Pascal Bonitzer Christine Laurent Jacques Rivette
(freely based onHonoré de Balzac 's short story "Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu ")
starring =Michel Piccoli Jane Birkin Emmanuelle Béart Marianne Denicourt
music =Igor Stravinsky
director =Jacques Rivette
distributor =
released =September 4 ,1991
runtime = 237 min
language = French / English
country =France /Switzerland
budget ="La Belle Noiseuse" is a 1991 film directed by
Jacques Rivette and starringMichel Piccoli ,Jane Birkin , andEmmanuelle Béart . Its title means "The Beautiful Troublemaker". The film is loosely adapted from the short story "The Unknown Masterpiece" by the nineteenth-century French writerHonoré 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 byBernard Dufour ) working on the canvas.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.
Rivette used alternate takes from the film and made changes in the scene order to produce a 125-minute version, "", for television; it was also released theatrically in 1993.
Cast
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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 handExternal links
*imdb title|title = La Belle Noiseuse|id = 0101428
*imdb title|title = Divertimento|id = 0101429###@@@KEY@@@###succession box
title=Grand Prix du Jury, Cannes
years=1991
before="Tilaï " tied with
"The Sting of Death "
after="The Stolen Children "
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