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New Digital Restoration!

LA BELLE NOISEUSE

France, Switzerland | 1991 | Jacques Rivette

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Jacques Rivette’s celebrated, four-hour epic that dissects the artistic process has been newly restored and re-released! Michel Piccoli plays a long dormant painter who returns to an unfinished canvas, his magnum opus, after convincing a beautiful, headstrong young woman (Emmanuelle Béart) to model nude for him. Jane Birkin plays the painter’s former model, now his wife. “The best film I have ever seen about the physical creation of art.” –Roger Ebert. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 238 min.

Special admission $12; members, CIA & CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $9. No passes, twofers, or radio winners.

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Saturday 2/3
6:45pm
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