La Belle Noiseuse will immerse you in a one-of-a-kind portrait of the artistic process.

| Jun 14, 2018

This is a movie about the making of a masterpiece which is itself a masterpiece, one of the truly great movies about artistic creation.

| Original Score: A | May 2, 2018

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

| Nov 28, 2017

Jacques Rivette's magisterial portrait of the creative process lays bare an artist's conflicted responsibilities toward life and art.

| Nov 27, 2017

Long takes, slow zooms, and deep focus give 'La Belle Noiseuse' a sense of disciplined stillness, all the better to record the meticulous efforts of its two chief subjects as they make art out of life.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 23, 2017

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

It's a lighter film, but by no means slighter, more like the difference between a Henry James short story and an extended performance piece.

| Feb 20, 2008

Like all great works of art, the film has a purity of line and structure as it plays out its theme.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 12, 2007

Rivette's superb sense of rhythm and mise en scene never falters, and the plot has plenty of twists.

| Nov 12, 2007

Jacques Rivette's much praised Cannes Grand Prize winner vacillates between genuine insight and didactic mystique-of-the-artist bull****.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 6, 2006

As impeccably shot as its subject deserves, the film is more accessible than most of Rivette's work, with characteristically playful passing nods to the relationship between life and performance.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2005

I won't explain what happens with the masterpiece; even at four hours, the film cooks up a certain amount of suspense and surprise.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 27, 2004

In this molasses-slow four-hour drama, Jacques Rivette proves that he's got an understanding of fine art, but a minimal one of the art of movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 19, 2004

Hypnotically beautiful.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 30, 2004

One of the best movies about painting.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 15, 2004

The characters are unsympathetic, the circumstances are hard to relate to, the dialogue is laboured and the running time brutal. But there is also a surfeit of intelligence and beauty (in technical filmmaking terms) in Rivette's difficult film.

| Sep 16, 2003

A four-hour French masterpiece about the creative process of an artist

| Jul 19, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2002