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La belle noiseuse @ Robert Classic French Film Festival
Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University
Webster Groves, MO
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La belle noiseuse @ Robert Classic French Film Festival
La belle noiseuse
Jacques Rivette, 1991, 238 min., color, DCP projection source, new restoration

Winner of Cannes Grand Prix in 1991, Jacques Rivettes La belle noiseuse is a free adaptation of Balzac's The Unknown Masterpiece infused with elements drawn from a trio of works by Henry James. In the film, the once-famous painter Édouard Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) lives quietly with his wife, Liz (Jane Birkin), in a rambling countryside château in the rural Provence region of France. When young artist Nicolas (David Bursztein) visits him with his striking girlfriend, Marianne (Emmanuelle Béart), the aging and increasingly unproductive Frenhofer finds himself inspired to begin painting again in earnest. At the urging of his agent, he commences work on the painting La belle noiseuse, a nude portrait that he left unfinished years earlier (and for which Liz had posed). Pressed by Nicolas, Marianne reluctantly agrees to serve as Frenhofers new (and nude) model.

Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum  a longtime enthusiast of the directors work  writes in the Chicago Reader: The complex forces that produce art are the films obsessive focus, and rarely has Rivette's use of duration to look at process been so spellbinding; hardly a moment is wasted. Rivettes superb sense of rhythm and mise en scene never falters, and the plot has plenty of twists. With exquisite cinematography by William Lubtchansky, beautiful location work in the south of France (mainly at an 18th-century chateau), and drawings and paintings executed by Bernard Dufour. The title translates roughly as the beautiful nutty woman; it's also the title of the masterpiece the painter is bent on finishing.

With an introduction and post-film discussion by Robert Hunt, film critic for the Riverfront Times.

Location

Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University (View)
470 E Lockwood Ave.
Webster Groves, MO 63119
United States

Categories

Film > Festivals
Film > Movies

Kid Friendly: Yes!
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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Owner: Cinema St. Louis
On BPT Since: Mar 14, 2011
 
Cliff Froehlich
www.cinemastlouis.org/robe...


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