May 24, 2004 18:19
20 yrs ago
French term

noiseusse

French to English Art/Literary Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
comme: "La belle noiseusse"

Proposed translations

26 mins
Selected

"La belle noiseuse"

It is the title of a french film, you can leave it in french.
Now if you want to translate "noiseuse" there was in the movie the ambiguity between "niais" and "noise" :

Dix ans déjà que Jacques Rivette reçut à Cannes le Grand Prix du Jury pour son très long (240 minutes) 15e long métrage, La Belle Noiseuse

Petite anecdote d'intérêt local : Marianne, au début du film, explique à son conjoint la signification du mot noiseuse, à la lumière d'un souvenir du Québec où elle confond le mot (dérivé de noise) avec celui de niaiseuse, couramment employé ici et dérivé de niais.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "This is the right answer to the riddle. Congratulations."
+1
6 mins

troublemaker

I'm totally guessing here.
Peer comment(s):

agree Iolanta Vlaykova Paneva : The Beautiful Troublemaker-www.imdb.com/title/tt0101428/
3 hrs
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+3
33 mins

(the beautiful) nuisance

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=119230

But take your pick:

http://www.artificial-eye.com/video/ART038/main.html
the beautiful troublemaker

http://www.foreignfilms.com/films/1464.asp
the beautiful troublemaker

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/v...
Loosely translated, "La Belle Noiseuse" means "the beautiful nut"; its subject is a woman who drives men to distraction.



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Note added at 34 mins (2004-05-24 18:54:10 GMT)
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http://www.foreignfilms.com/films/1464.asp
the beautiful annoyance
Peer comment(s):

agree François Rossi : noiseuse comes from "chercher des noises" i.e. to look for trouble
21 mins
agree GILLES MEUNIER
47 mins
agree Sophie Raimondo : yes, nut or nuisance... tout un programme :)
5 hrs
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