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The Dancer

Original title: La danseuse
  • 20162016
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 48m
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6.5/10
2.6K
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Soko in The Dancer (2016)
BiographyDramaHistory
Loïe Fuller was the toast of the Folies Bergères at the turn of the 20th century and an inspiration for Toulouse-Lautrec and the Lumière Brothers. The film revolves around her complicated re... Read allLoïe Fuller was the toast of the Folies Bergères at the turn of the 20th century and an inspiration for Toulouse-Lautrec and the Lumière Brothers. The film revolves around her complicated relationship with protégé and rival Isadora Duncan.Loïe Fuller was the toast of the Folies Bergères at the turn of the 20th century and an inspiration for Toulouse-Lautrec and the Lumière Brothers. The film revolves around her complicated relationship with protégé and rival Isadora Duncan.
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
2.6K
YOUR RATING
    • Stéphanie Di Giusto
  • Writers
    • Thomas Bidegain(collaboration)
    • Giovanni Lista(novel Loïe Fuller, Danseuse de la Belle Epoque)
    • Stéphanie Di Giusto(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Soko
    • Gaspard Ulliel
    • Mélanie Thierry
    • Stéphanie Di Giusto
  • Writers
    • Thomas Bidegain(collaboration)
    • Giovanni Lista(novel Loïe Fuller, Danseuse de la Belle Epoque)
    • Stéphanie Di Giusto(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Soko
    • Gaspard Ulliel
    • Mélanie Thierry
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    • 9User reviews
    • 54Critic reviews
    • 44Metascore
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    Mélanie Thierry in The Dancer (2016)
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    Soko
    Soko
    • Marie-Louise 'Loïe' Fuller
    Gaspard Ulliel
    Gaspard Ulliel
    • Le comte Louis d'Orsay
    Mélanie Thierry
    Mélanie Thierry
    • Gabrielle Bloch
    Lily-Rose Depp
    Lily-Rose Depp
    • Isadora Duncan
    François Damiens
    François Damiens
    • Edouard Marchand - le directeur artistique des Folies-Bergère
    Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
    Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
    • Armand Duponchel - le directeur de l'Opéra
    Amanda Plummer
    Amanda Plummer
    • Lili - la mère de Loïe
    Denis Ménochet
    Denis Ménochet
    • Ruben - le père de Loïe
    Charlie Morgan
    • Jeff
    Tamzin Merchant
    Tamzin Merchant
    • Kate
    William Houston
    William Houston
    • Rud
    • (as Will Houston)
    Bert Haelvoet
    • L'acteur qui joue dans Macbeth
    Camille Rutherford
    Camille Rutherford
    • L'actrice qui joue dans Macbeth
    Laurent Manzoni
    • Le médecin
    Matilda Kime
    • L'assistante de Louis
    • (as Mathilda Kime)
    Christian Erickson
    • William - le conseiller de Louis
    Nicolas Helpiquet
    • Le garçon de restaurant
    Daniel Kramer
    • Taylor
      • Stéphanie Di Giusto
    • Writers
      • Thomas Bidegain(collaboration)
      • Giovanni Lista(novel Loïe Fuller, Danseuse de la Belle Epoque)
      • Stéphanie Di Giusto(adaptation) (dialogue) (screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Elle Fanning was first attached to play Isadora Duncan, but was later replaced by Lily-Rose Depp.
    • Goofs
      Loie first performed at the Follies Bergere in the early 1890s, but the director of the Follies Bergere is driving an "olde tymey" car from perhaps 2 decades later when Loie ambushes him in his carpark in order to present an impromptu audition.
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    User reviews9

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    8/10
    an engaging bio pic of an avant-garde Parisian dancer
    Historians have a way of sterilising cinema. So many words are wasted on whether a film is accurate instead of understanding and enjoying film as an artform. The Dancer (2016) is a bio-pic based on the life of Loíe Fuller who pioneered a hybrid dance performance that integrated visual spectacle and physical movement. Historians can fuss over facts, but others will enjoy what is an aesthetically intense story of creative innovation in late 19th Century Paris.

    The story opens with Loíe (Soko) raised by her drunken father on a farm in America. A keen reader with a vivid imagination, she dreams of a career as an actress. After her father dies, she uses money stolen from a would-be seducer to cross the Atlantic in search of fame. She stumbles upon a Parisian theatre looking for a performer to fill the stage during interval. As a talented artist with an eye for design, she conceives of a dance act that disguises her modest dancing talent and creates a dramatic serpentine performance using a costume of batons and swirling bedsheets. Her act is immediately popular. Although physically arduous, the performance evolves to using silk, coloured lights, and dramatic music, and suddenly Loíe is the toast of Paris. When the talented teenage dancer Isadora Duncan (Lilly_Rose Depp) joins the troupe, the stress of dancing on Loíe's body, her penchant to overspend, and her emerging sexual ambivalence, all begin to take their toll.

    This is a luscious film to watch. Its rich colour palette, top-shelf production values and unconventional characterisations create the dramatic energy which drives the narrative. Undoubtedly, it is Soko's physicality and her acting style that makes this film work. She has an almost androgynous beauty that the camera exploits; in some scenes she appears dashingly handsome, in others, sublimely feminine. With an emotive range that switches effortlessly from ingénue to sophisticate, she transfixes with her gender-free expressiveness, even under the on- screen competitive pressure of the beautiful young Isadora. The serpentine dance performances are mesmerising. They hang in a space somewhere between classical ballet, modern jazz, and a gyrating living sculpture draped in wings of silk accompanied by Vivaldi under spotlights. It's easy to understand their immense popularity as a dramatic innovation in stage performance. Above all else, The Dancer captures this spirit of excitement.

    Reading this film as history gets in the way of enjoying it as visual spectacle and engaging narrative. Loíe Fuller was praised by luminaries of her time, such as Yeats, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Rodin, but largely forgotten in her native country. The Dancer is a tribute to an avant-garde artiste whose legacy lives on in theatrical dance effects that have become an artform in their own right.
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    • Oct 5, 2017

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    • Release date
      • December 1, 2017 (United States)
      • France
      • Belgium
      • Czech Republic
    • Official sites
      • Official site (Germany)
      • Official site (France)
      • French
      • English
    • Also known as
    • Filming locations
      • Opéra de Vichy, 1 rue du Casino, Vichy, Allier, France
    • Production companies
      • Trésor Films
      • Wild Bunch
      • Orange Studio
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    • 1 hour 48 minutes
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