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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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The Good: the wonderful costumes, the stunning dance routines, and the performance of Soki in the lead role. Purely as a spectacle, there's plenty to enjoy.
The Bad: the storyline was completely disjointed. Certain scenes and interactions made no sense, suddenly following on from one another in a jarring way. There seemed to be gaps (scenes edited out for length?). It was hard to tell how much time was supposed to have elapsed. The way Soki meets Gabrielle in a car park, and then next scene she's suddenly got some huge show happening: it was bewildering.
Let's not even get started on the confusing relationships. I'm not sure what I was supposed to be watching there, or who was already supposed to have slept with whom.
Ultimately this would have been a better film if they had cut down on the endless scenes of Soki's pain and exercise and bleeding eyes and ice baths, and added a bit more storytelling. Much of the US/ New York stuff could have been cut/tightened (particularly since it wasn't biographically accurate, and served minimal apparent purpose. Save for Ulliel, the NY cast didn't reappear once we moved to Paris).