La Belle Noiseuse
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A slow-burn psychological drama about artistic obsession and desire, centered on the fraught relationship between an aging painter, his muse, and the act of creation itself.
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.
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