The Beautiful Troublemaker
- slow-burn
- intimate
Neutral, slow-burn, measured drama / french, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.
Our read · The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, grounded drama · french entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of The Beautiful Troublemaker
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Rivette's painter-and-muse epic under its English release title.”
Skip it tonight — You already saw La Belle Noiseuse; it is the same four-hour film.
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