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The brunette: tall, poor, ungainly, Virginia-bred. The blond: pixieish, monied, agile, Paris-raised. Within minutes of meeting, basketballer-turned-ballerina Kate Sanders (Diana Silvers) and dethroned queen bee dancer Marine Durand (Kristine Froseth) erupt in eroticized violence. A bitch slap, then another, some full-throttle tussling and, finally, a potent sucker punch. Only one girl in this elite, cutthroat French école de danse will win a spot at the Opéra National de Paris. Yet, in Sarah Adina Smith’s surreal psychodrama Birds of Paradise, it matters less who will be crowned than how the war unfolds.
This is because Smith (Buster’s Mal Heart) is much more ...
This is because Smith (Buster’s Mal Heart) is much more ...
- 9/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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The brunette: tall, poor, ungainly, Virginia-bred. The blond: pixieish, monied, agile, Paris-raised. Within minutes of meeting, basketballer-turned-ballerina Kate Sanders (Diana Silvers) and dethroned queen bee dancer Marine Durand (Kristine Froseth) erupt in eroticized violence. A bitch slap, then another, some full-throttle tussling and, finally, a potent sucker punch. Only one girl in this elite, cutthroat French école de danse will win a spot at the Opéra National de Paris. Yet, in Sarah Adina Smith’s surreal psychodrama Birds of Paradise, it matters less who will be crowned than how the war unfolds.
This is because Smith (Buster’s Mal Heart) is much more ...
This is because Smith (Buster’s Mal Heart) is much more ...
- 9/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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