La Belle Noiseuse

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La Belle Noiseuse
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4hrs 0min
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1991
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Panorama
Synopsis: In this fascinating and unconventional examination of the creative process, an artist near the end of his career finds new inspiration in a young model. Edouard Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) is a famous and well-respected artist who lives in a comfortable estate in the French countryside. At the age of 60, Frenhofer considers his career as a painter to be over; he says he no longer feels any inspiration to create, and his last attempt at a major work, a nude study of his wife Liz (Jane Birkin) called ... Full Synopsis
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The creative process is a largely internal affair, which may be why so few good films have been made about it: it's all but impossible to make thought visually interesting. But, more than almost any other film, Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse makes visual and narrative sense of the annoying, exhausting, frustrating, but joyously fascinating work of creating art. While painter Edouard Frenhofer ... Full Review
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