Beautiful Troublemaker

Streaming video - 1991

Legendary French New Wave director Jacques Rivette’s intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive painter living in the French countryside with his wife. Their lives are radically upended with the arrival of a younger artist and his girlfriend, who becomes the muse that awakens Edouard’s fading passions. Rivette creates a layered character study, while also offering an immersive meditation on the creative process. Nominated for five awards, including Best Film at the **César Awards.** Winner of the Grand Prize of the Jury at **Cannes Film Festival**. *"In its own way this sensual, granular experience is just as pure and obsessive as Rivette's less hospitable m...asterpieces, and almost as mysterious." - Michael Atkinson, **Village Voice*** more