La belle noiseuse
The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
- Rated
- Unrated
- Runtime
- 3h 58m
- Released
- 1991
- Country
- France, Switzerland
Details
Release year: 1991
Storyline
The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
Top credits
Michel Piccoli â Edouard Frenhofer
Jane Birkin â Liz
Emmanuelle BĂŠart â Marianne
Marianne Denicourt â Julienne
Did you know
⢠There was no script per se. The film was shot in sequential order and the day's shooting was dictated by what had been filmed the day before.
⢠Shortly before his death, legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa named La belle noiseuse as one of his 2 favorite movies made in the 1990s (the other being Fireworks by Takeshi Kitano), calling it the best filmed display of a struggle of an artist doing his craft and a cinematic piece he would have liked to direct himself.
⢠The picture in the film is drawn by the hand of the artist Bernard Dufour.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $403,056
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $1,887 (2017-11-26)
User reviews
If you have the patience, La Belle Noiseuse is very rewarding.
paint a pristine picture
You have to respect the mystery of the other
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Dolby
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1, 1.37 : 1
- Color
- Color
