The Artist and the Model (2012)
Directed by Fernando Trueba
In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of a beautiful young Spanish refugee.
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But dawdling along as it does, “The Artist and the Model” merely calls attention to all the films that have covered the same ground, most of them just as slow and serene, most of them drawn to exactly the same details about the process of creation (“La belle noiseuse” may be the most carefully observed, and the most tedious).
You'd be forgiven for thinking we're talking about Jacques Rivette's great 1991 film "La belle noiseuse," but this less momentous telling of a similar tale bears the appropriately more prosaic title "The Artist and the Model."
“La Belle Noiseuse,” Jacques Rivette’s greater film with a similar plot, showed the tension and power dynamics in this sort of symbiotic creation through the relationships of two bodies in one space.