La Belle Noiseuse

Jacques Rivette (director, screenwriter)
Honore de Balzac (novel)
Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent (screenwriter)
Michel Piccoi, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Beart, Marianne Denicourt (starring)

N.p. N.p., 1991. Eight vintage French color lobby cards from the 1991 film.

Inspired by Balzac's novella "Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu," Jacques Rivette's "La Belle Noiseuse" ("The Beautiful Troublemaker") is a masterful four-hour study of the creative process and the emotional tolls taken on artist, model and family.

A once famous, now reclusive painter Frenhofer (Piccoli) and his wife Liz (Jane Birkin) are visited by a young artist Nicolas (David Bursztein) and his girlfriend Marianne (Beart). Frenhofer is inspired to take up work on a painting, "La Belle Noiseuse" he abandoned a decade earlier, with Marianne replacing the former model, Liz.

Set in and shot on location in Assas, Herault, France.

8.5 x 10.75 inches. Near Fine.



Cannes Palme d'Or Nominee, 1991. Cannes Grand Prix, 1991. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert III.


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