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.
Michel Piccoli
as Edouard Frenhofer
Emmanuelle Béart
as Marianne
Jane Birkin
as Liz
Marianne Denicourt
as Julienne
David Bursztein
as Nicolas
Gilles Arbona
as Porbus
Marie Belluc
as Magali
Marie-Claude Roger
as Françoise
Leïla Remili
as La servante
Daphne Goodfellow
as Une touriste
Susan Robertson
as Une touriste
Bernard Dufour
as La main du peintre
