La Belle Noiseuse (DVD)

I remember my first life class at art school - nervous students standing in a semi-circle, hiding behind our canvases waiting for the revelation of a naked lady. I recall being immediately impressed not by the model's voluptuous physique but by her all-over tan after she casually cast her robe aside. There then followed a quiet stillness and slight tension in the room - a moment of almost a religious quality, but this was soon to pass as everyone relaxed and got into there work. In fact it was not long before I was asking the model to lie down and spread her legs a bit in order to make a more interesting pose. The atmosphere of these life sessions came back to me when I ...  Read the complete review