Beautiful Troublemaker

La Belle Noiseuse

Legendary French New Wave director Jacques Rivette's intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive painter living in the French countryside with his wife. Their lives are radically upended with the arrival of a younger artist and his girlfriend, who becomes the muse that awakens Edouard's fading passions. Rivette creates a layered character study, while also offering an immersive meditation on the creative process.

Nominated for five awards, including Best Film at the Cesar Awards. Winner of the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes Film Festival.

"In its own way this sensual, granular experience is just as pure and obsessive as Rivette's less hospitable masterpieces, and almost as mysterious." - Michael Atkinson, Village Voice