More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one being more from Marianne's point of view
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I was interested in portraying an artist. The gaze is an artistic gaze. We're thinking about the art history. So you have a lot of movies about artists, but usually it’s a male painter. When you think about La Belle Noiseuse by Rivette, it’s a great movie, and it’s a man painting a woman. We really wanted to think about a different perspective, a woman painting a woman.