When a young artist comes to visit, the famous retired painter Frenhofer is persuaded to revisit an old abandoned project, called La belle noiseuse, with the young artist’s girlfriend as model. Jacques Rivette’s film is a beautiful exploration about the pain, struggle and limits of art.
For most of the film’s four hours Rivette let us observe this long and difficult process. Long takes of both the painter and model in action is filling great parts of the runtime. Rivette…
We follow Cleo, a rising french singer, one afternoon while she is awaiting test results from her doctor. For precisely one and a half hour we follow her through feelings of despair and hopelessness, as she fears that the tests is going to detect cancer that will kill her.
Cleo’s journey through the streets of Paris is filled with relatable emotions. One scene follows her into a cafe where she intentionally turns on one of her own songs on the…
Enter the world of Jacques Demy, where realistic tales can unfold themselves in charming and colorful surroundings. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is an elegant musical which feels just like pure and ordinary life.
It is a very honest form of narrating that Demy has taken into use. The story progresses in a very focused way, without taking any melodramatic turns along the way. The story is about love and establishment, were we follow a young couple in a small and…
Frédéric is a young, successful lawyer whom is happily married to Hélène, whom he awaits his second child with. Even though he has all the reasons in the world to be satisfied, he still longs back to his philandering times before their marriage. When the now single, young and beautiful ex girlfriend of an old friend, Chloé, reenters his life his loyalty towards his family is put to test.
This is the last of Eric Rohmer’s movies in his series…
