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Overview
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Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer (Campbell) who's poised to become a principal performer. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Altman's Editor Peroni in Suicide Mystery (From WENN. 10 August 2004)
Neve Loses Out qith New Film (From WENN. 13 January 2004)
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Beautiful ballet scenes with token romance plot spliced in. 6/10. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Neve Campbell | ... | Loretta 'Ry' Ryan | |
| Malcolm McDowell | ... | Alberto Antonelli | |
| James Franco | ... | Josh | |
| Barbara E. Robertson | ... | Harriet (as Barbara Robertson) | |
| William Dick | ... | Edouard | |
| Susie Cusack | ... | Susie | |
| Marilyn Dodds Frank | ... | Mrs. Ryan | |
| John Lordan | ... | Mr. Ryan | |
| Mariann Mayberry | ... | Stepmother | |
| Roderick Peeples | ... | Stepfather | |
| Yasen Peyankov | ... | Justin's Mentor | |
| Davis C. Robertson | ... | Alec - Joffrey Dancer (as Davis Robertson) | |
| Deborah Dawn | ... | Deborah - Joffrey Dancer | |
| John Gluckman | ... | John - Joffrey Dancer | |
| David Gombert | ... | Justin - Joffrey Dancer |
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Rated PG-13 on appeal for brief strong language, some nudity and sexual content.Parents Guide:
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Canada:112 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:112 min | Argentina:112 minLanguage:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
France:U | Iceland:L | Portugal:M/12 | Australia:PG | Brazil:12 | Germany:o.Al. | Netherlands:AL | Singapore:NC-16 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12A | USA:PG-13 (re-rating on appeal) | Argentina:Atp | USA:R (original rating) (certificate #39884) | Canada:PG (Ontario)MOVIEmeter: 
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As screenwriter Barbara Turner knew next to nothing about the world of dance, she hung out with the Joffrey Ballet Company for several weeks, during their rehearsals and while they were out socializing. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Ry gets out of the bath behind the screen, it's clear she's wearing a body stocking. moreSoundtrack:
Lowdown Thing or Two moreFAQ
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The ballet sequences are probably the most breathtaking we've seen in a fiction film. Altman succeeds in putting ballet in the fore, instead of characters or story. This was his intention, and on this front he gets a 8/10. However, where there are not ballet scenes, there is a story: Neve Campbell wrote it. And she seems not to have seen any other romance movie since the dawn of time. Its just the kind of romance subplot a little girl WOULD write: with soft lighting, flickering candlelight, a beautiful boy who does nothing wrong, listens to your problems, sleeps with you, and lets you get on with your dancing. He appears when it is convenient for both Neve and Bob Altman to insert a romantic scene: and just as gimmicky a brushstroke as this, is his entrance always being marked by the same song, My Funny Valentine. It was nice how they had four different versions of the song, for different moods: the upbeat poolhall number for their meeting, the romantic one for the seduction, and a more melancholy one when she's missing him. Anyone who knows this song (most of us), feel how gimmicky a device this is when it arrives again.
So far is this from the dramatic conflict between love and dancing in Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes that we're almost barren of any narrative drive or dramatic conflict at all. That's my main problem with The Company - nothing goes wrong. Or when it does go wrong (raining on the night of a performance), it always serves to improve the moment for the protagonists: indeed it is an incredible scene, Neve dancing a duet with a Joffret dancer. A moving, beautiful dance. But that's precicely the problem: there is no problem!
Malcolm McDowell is no good. He gets a C-. He tries, but its so obvious throughout that he knows not a jot about ballet, and he just walks around play-acting at a ballet coach from the movies, while the real Joffret coaches tell the dancers what they need to know. And his calling everyone "babies" is a clumsy attempt to create character through a catchphrase.
6/10
Beautiful ballet scenes, A+ for putting the dancing centre-stage, so to speak (as opposed to the tawdry melodrama called Centre Stage). But all we've got to go on narrative-wise is a thin-as-a-ballet-ribbon romance subplot. If this wasn't there, actually, it might have been a very successful art movie - but its gimmicky presence is so clumsy its a fault.