1001 Club - La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

#861. La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

Why It's In The Book: "Films about artists are risky...Jacques Rivette accepts the challenge gleefully in La Belle Noiseuse...Rivette and his writers, Pascal Bonitzer and Christine Laurent, juggle many themes skillfully.... At the film's core, Rivette studies, with a minute attention to detail and duration, the dancelike rapport between an artist... and his mostly naked model...it is hard not to see this melancholy hero as the director's own self-portrait." -1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

Member Ratings

Lindsey - 9/10
"...so relaxing."
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Adolytsi - 7/10
"I’ve readily admitted that I was not all that willing to sit through a four-hour film about a guy making a painting, but as I’ve also said, once I was able to get myself in the right mindset about the film, I actually found myself enjoying it at times."
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nicvolas krizan - 7/10
"dependence and control, success and failure, possession and release"
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Movie Guy Steve - 4/10
"It’s not unlike an episode of 'The Joy of Painting' with Bob Ross, only without the constant commentary. There are also no happy little trees and a lot more of Marianne’s crotch."
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Overall Rating: 6.7/10