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Title: La danseuse (2016)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Soko | ... | Marie-Louise Fuller - dite Loïe Fuller | |
| Gaspard Ulliel | ... | Le comte Louis d'Orsay | |
| Mélanie Thierry | ... | Gabrielle Bloch | |
| Lily-Rose Depp | ... | Isadora Duncan | |
| François Damiens | ... | Edouard Marchand - le directeur artistique des Folies-Bergère | |
| Louis-Do de Lencquesaing | ... | Armand Duponchel - le directeur de l'Opéra | |
| Amanda Plummer | ... | Lili - la mère de Loïe | |
| Denis Ménochet | ... | Ruben - le père de Loïe | |
| Charlie Morgan | ... | Jeff | |
| Tamzin Merchant | ... | Kate | |
| William Houston | ... | Rud (as Will Houston) | |
| Bert Haelvoet | ... | L'acteur qui joue dans Macbeth | |
| Camille Rutherford | ... | L'actrice qui joue dans Macbeth | |
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Laurent Manzoni | ... | Le médecin |
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Matilda Kime | ... | L'assistante de Louis (as Mathilda Kime) |
There was nothing in her background to prepare Loïe to become the toast of the Folies Bergères in Paris and stages across the world. Then she created the 'Serpentine Dance'... 1887. After the death of her gold prospector father, 25-year-old Marie-Louise leaves her life in the American West to join her mother in New York and pursue her heart's dream - becoming an actress. One night on stage, becoming tangled in her long dress, she avoids falling by spinning the fabric in a graceful, magical gesture: the "Serpentine Dance" is born. The audience - shocked, then overwhelmed - calls out for more. Marie-Louise has become Loïe Fuller. She embarks on a new, hectic life, leaving New York, where imitators try to steal her radical innovations, for Paris. At the Folies Bergères, she dazzles the capital, and illustrious admirers fall at her feet. Toulouse Lautrec, the Lumière Brothers, Rodin... the Electric Fairy becomes an icon, the blazing symbol of a generation. But fame isn't all. An encounter... Written by Anonymous
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A very beautiful film directed with vigor and taste. To classify this film as biopic does not do justice to it and it is even misleading. I read so many ill directed criticism on what is and what is not historically accurate in the movie. Who cares? Who would criticize the Greek poet Kavafy for misrepresenting historical figures in his poems? For me 'The Dancer' is a poetic film on beauty and the passion for creativity and it was a pleasure to watch. For two hours I was immersed in the film's world, relishing every bit of it; the elliptical decor, the unreal almost lighting, the spectacular dance, the energy. Indeed what I liked most was the fact that the film did not make an effort to faithfully reconstruct an era, but rather create its own unique universe combining various elements in a coherent whole. Let alone the amazing amount of work that went into it, the production design, the choreography, the music. The audacious directorial approach is justified by the result. Soko's choice to play Loie Fuller was excellent as she brought into the part her own fierce determination to develop in the show and music business matched with confident and truthful acting. The film is an amazing feat anyway, but even more so as a debut feature.