Winner of the Grand Prix at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noisseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker) is an intimate exploration of art and eroticism, providing fascinating insight into the creative process.
The legendary director’s complex character study follows Edouard Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli), a reclusive painter who lives in the French countryside with his wife (Jane Birkin). Their lives are radically upended when a younger artist (David Bursztein) and his girlfriend (Emmanuelle Béart) visit, and the young woman becomes Edouard’s muse, awakening his fading passions.
