Marianne Denicourt

DNA tests before Alice and François's wedding reveal their fathers - an aristocrat and car dealer - aren't as French as they thought.

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.