La Belle Noiseuse will immerse you in a one-of-a-kind portrait of the artistic process.

In its own way this sensual, granular experience is just as pure and obsessive as Rivette's less hospitable masterpieces, and almost as mysterious.

It's a lighter film, but by no means slighter, more like the difference between a Henry James short story and an extended performance piece.

This is a movie about the making of a masterpiece which is itself a masterpiece, one of the truly great movies about artistic creation.