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Crazy Horse
2011 2h 14m Not Rated
Documentary
6.5
85%
52%
65%
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A look inside Paris' Crazy Horse, a club that boasts the greatest and most chic nude dancing in the world.
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Directed By
Frederick Wiseman
Studio
Zipporah Films
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Idéale Audience
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Cast of Crazy Horse
Naamah Alva
Bagira
Daizy Blu
Herself
Philippe Decouflé
Himself
Philippe Katerine
Himself
Crazy Horse Reviews
Detroit News
Tom Long
If there's one thing that's both surprising and predictable about "Crazy Horse" it's how thoroughly unsexy the film is.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
Wiseman is a still-prolific luminary of what has been dubbed "direct cinema," a documentary style in which the director intrudes as little as possible and conducts no on-camera interviews.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
If nothing else, you'll surely relish the extravagant rhetoric used by Ali Mahdavi, the club's artistic director, to describe what is basically a tasteful nudie revue.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
The most interesting dynamic exists between director Philippe Decoufle and artistic director Ali Mahdavi.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Wiseman's film captivates, like all backstage documentaries, with its instances of the banal ensconced amid so much fleshly and artistic perfection.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The performers, who (spoiler alert) look pretty good, are neither sentimentalized nor unduly ennobled by Wiseman.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris is famous for its "erotic chic" revues, but I found nothing either erotic or chic in this reduction of body parts to geometrical displays.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
It's a fascinating behind-the-scenes view, right down to the delivery man who blandly deposits a bag of takeout backstage.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It is a deft revelation of shared humanity, the kind of thing no one does better than Frederick Wiseman.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Wiseman's are the movies to show to the aliens when they arrive.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Wiseman freely, unobtrusively prowls the joint to create a movie that respects the serious work involved in simulating the sensations of pleasure.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
It's undeniably interesting to watch each element come into place, from choreography to costumes. But the truth is, most viewers will best appreciate the retro-sexy dance numbers themselves.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Part performance film, part backstage documentary, Crazy Horse is familiar in form, yet remarkable both for its subject and for who's sitting in the director's chair.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
Even Wiseman, cerebral, perceptive, and a maestro in the editing room, can't resist urging us, with images if not with words, "Just look at them!" And so we do.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Crazy Horse could be condensed to its advantage.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The idea is to be erotic, seductive, but often, through Wiseman's unforgiving lens, the effect is more anatomical, aloof, amusing.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
So warm, colorful, and sensuous that it seems like a real anomaly for the highly disciplined filmmaker.
New Yorker
David Denby
The spectacle lodges somewhere between erotic reverie and the perfection of a revolving sculpture.
NPR
Scott Tobias
A film that firmly belies the assumption that "fly on the wall" implies an absence of cinematic effect.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
Wiseman's methodology favors the vocal, so we hear more from the choreographers and the directors than we do from the actual performers, and that somewhat throws off the balance of what we learn about the goings-on here.
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