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Oct. 28, 1991: View Points:Cinema
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Oct. 28, 1991 Ollie North:"Reagan Knew Everything"
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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VIEW POINTS, Page 101
CINEMA
Seduction on Canvas
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<p>By Richard Corliss
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<p> He strips and contorts her, plies her, woos her, drives
her to boredom, exasperation, tears. He is, in last week's
favorite phrase, her mentor and tormentor. What the aging artist
Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli) does to his young model, Marianne
(Emmanuelle Beart), as she poses for his first painting in
years, is a disinterested kind of sexual harassment for art's
sake. These sittings, a seduction on canvas, fill more than half
of Jacques Rivette's four-hour La Belle Noiseuse. The phrase is
loosely translated as "the beautiful nut case," but Frenhofer,
not Marianne, is the genial lunatic: a man of the world who is
a mad monk for his art. In his atelier the two act out a primal
ritual of man appraising, adoring, subjugating and re-creating
woman. This glamorous film, which won second prize at this
year's Cannes Film Festival and deserved even better, can be
taken as a commentary on the creation of anybody's art: hard
work that is its own reward. Its mind is Rivette's, but its soul
is in Beart--gorgeous, quietly fiery, supple yet stubborn,
yielding only surface secrets to the voyeur-artist in every
gentleman. They may be all he wants.
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