The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.

• Pierre Grise Productions
• George Reinhart Productions
• Michel Piccoli
• Emmanuelle Béart
• Jane Birkin
• Marianne Denicourt
• David Bursztein
• Gilles Arbona
• Marie Belluc
• Marie-Claude Roger