"Like [Oscar] Wilde’s portrait, Frenhofer’s painting acquires a revelatory power, exposing Marianne’s core. Far from belonging solely to the nineteenth-century imagination, however, this anxiety has become newly relevant in a culture saturated with self-images."
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Cassandra Priameida
In an era dominated by digital self-representation, Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse appears increasingly prophetic, anticipating contemporary anxieties about what images reveal, writes @tomlordan.bsky.social
Jacques Rivette’s film is striking for its psychological complexity, its depiction of artistic practice, and marks a timely reminder of the disquieting…
