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I love films that show an artist working with a live model, probably because that is what I do. Here are three you might find interesting:

The Artist and the Model

Renoir

La Belle Noiseuse

All are French. The last is 4 1/2 hours long and may be trying for many viewers.

 

dottiewarden

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French films really used to irk me, as I'd spend a hour and a half waiting for something to happen and the next thing I knew film's over and I'm left wondering how I could have sat there for so long without ever understanding what the point was. When you think about it, it in fact grabbed my attention sufficiently to keep me glued to the screen for an hour and a half. I guess I really began to appreciate French films when I realized they weren't structured like a typical Hollywood picture; they weren't about beginnings and endings, but more about a slice of life in its own right.
Brilliant! now I'm a big fan of French films.
Thanks for the tip foggy!

 

condorlover1

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Dec 22, 2013
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The French are an odd bunch. Statistically you know they only use 3 1/2 bars of soap a year. I have always found their films to involve some sort of soft porn whilst having sex with someones wife other than their own spouse. At least in Scandinavia they are all worried about being a sex murderer or becoming a sex murderer or a victim of a sex murderer or having repressed memories of being a sex murderer or something interesting along those lines!

 

anglesey

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I don't mind a bit of french films. You might have included amelie though, there's a pointless, bizarre feel good flick if ever I saw one.
Personally I'm going to recommend Das Boot. Because it's brilliant, and has jurgen prochnow as the captain.

 

conlejm

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Mar 22, 2014
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Foggy, don't limit yourself to French movies in this genre. American film has some fine offerings, too.
Case in point:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XGS7xoilzQ

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Seriously, the only film that comes to mind right now (before the morning cup) is "Girl With a Pearl Earring", and I'm not sure if that is an American film.
I just finished reading "The Moon and Sixpence" by Somerset Maugham, which is loosely base on the life of Paul Gauguin.

 
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Condorlover: Regarding the soap, a girlfriend and I stayed with some Parisian friends when we went there in the early 70s. It was rather surprising to be told that we could only take a bath (no shower) every 2 days and both had to use the same water. Although they lived in a luxury rental they had to pay for the hot water separately from the rent and oil is very expensive there. Gasoline cost several times what it cost here.

 
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Condorlover: Regarding the soap, a girlfriend and I stayed with some Parisian friends when we went there in the early 70s. It was rather surprising to be told that we could only take a bath (no shower) every 2 days and both had to use the same water. Although they lived in a luxury rental they had to pay for the hot water separately from the rent and oil is very expensive there. Gasoline cost several times what it cost here.

 

cobguy

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Oct 18, 2013
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The last French film I remember enjoying was Caché ... I believe it was called Hidden in the UK.

 

sablebrush52

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For films depicting the artists with his model, one of my favorites is Rembrandt. Charles Laughton did a fine job with his role. Leave us also not forget The Agony And The Ecstasy.
Ilford was nice stuff. Rodinol? Great over rice.

 

pipesinperu

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The last French film I remember enjoying was Caché ... I believe it was called Hidden in the UK.
Great movie, cobguy! I've enjoyed most of the movies I've seen by that director, Michael Haneke (who's Austrian, but has made a lot of his films in France, I think). I liked The Piano Teacher even more. And Amour... well, that was one of the most uncomfortable and brutal films to sit through, but I liked it! Just not anxious to rewatch it anytime soon 8O. I haven't seen too many movies that can touch a nerve the way Haneke's can.

 
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I found "Rembrandt" on Hulu. Beautifully photographed for the era of pre coated photo lenses, but boring, and Laughton seems silly as Rembrandt.I couldn't watch much of it, it kept putting me to sleep, but it does not seem like an artist/model film. Oh, and he was clenching a clay churchwarden, which is not a comfortable way to smoke one. I kept waiting for him to walk into a doorframe with it.

 
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