Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 238 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Switzerland
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- countryside
- provence
- eroticism
- painting
- artwork
- country estate
- painter
- drawing and painting
- man woman relationship
- taxidermist
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- David Bursztein — Nicolas
- Gilles Arbona — Porbus
- Marie Belluc — Magali
- Marie-Claude Roger — Françoise
- Leïla Remili — La servante
- Daphne Goodfellow — Une touriste
- Susan Robertson — Une touriste
- Bernard Dufour — La main du peintre
- Directed
- Jacques Rivette
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 298 ratings
- Studio
- Pierre Grise Productions, George Reinhart Productions, FR3 Films Production
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
