La Belle Noiseuse is a remarkable film and as far as I know, the best known of Jacuqes Rivette's films. Rivette approaches films in slow and comprehensive detail. Nothing is left out, nothing is left to chance.
Rivette takes the beautiful young Emmanuelle Beart, referred to him by her boyfriend and poses her as a model for hours on end for the retired painter played by Michel Piccoli. The plot is not much more than this. It is all about the relation between an artist and his painting model and how this can be a catharsis for the painter and sometimes also for the model. We are asked to view the movie from the painter's point of view; Rivette shows us exactly how a painter works, what his world is like as art is created. The sharp brush strokes, the going back for the details once an outline appears on a canvas are all detailed in what is often a fascinating process.
At the end of the session, Beart declares her independence from her boyfriend and goes off on her own.Why she decides to do this is not clear, except that this process has changed her in some fundamental way. The painter, at long last, finally accomplishes the work he abandoned after his wife's death.
Rivette is an acquired taste but like Merlot, sip first and ask questions later.
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