La belle noiseuse 1991

Critics score:
100 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Hypnotically beautiful. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Rivette's superb sense of rhythm and mise en scene never falters, and the plot has plenty of twists. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Some movies are worlds that we can sink into, and La Belle Noiseuse is one of them. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: 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. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: The underlying ideas may be a little droopy, but they're staged in such exacting, private terms that they are redeemed. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: What's good about the film is the sense of real evolution, of believable character change, instead of the Speedy Gonzalez transformations movie characters usually experience. What's also good is a realistic feel for the act of creation. Read more