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La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Directed by
Frederick Wiseman
PG
2009
2h 39m
Documentary
7.2
87%
74%
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The film follows the production of seven ballets by the Paris Opera Ballet.
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Cast of La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Emilie Cozette
Self
Brigitte Lefèvre
Self
Aurélie Dupont
Self
Dorothée Gilbert
Self
Marie-Agnès Gillot
Self
Agnès Letestu
Self
Delphine Moussin
Self
Kader Belarbi
Self
Clairemarie Osta
Self
Laëtitia Pujol
Self
Jérémie Bélingard
Self
Mathieu Ganio
Self
Manuel Legris
Self
Nicolas Le Riche
Self
José Martinez
Self
Hervé Moreau
Self
Benjamin Puech
Self
Wilfried Romoli
Self
Frederick Wiseman
Director / Writer / Producer
Françoise Gazio
Producer
Pierre-Olivier Bardet
Producer
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet Ratings & Reviews
Cinema Autopsy
Thomas Caldwell
La danse is as good a way as any to discover the extraordinary combination of control, strength, precision, beauty and art that goes into creating ballet.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rob Thomas
It's just endless performance footage, indulgently edited together, and it soons proves exhausting. Not "I just danced on the balls of my feet for three hours" exhausting, but exhausting nonetheless.
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
Challenging as well as informative...a strong addition to an already impressive body of work.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
An observational documentary that captures within the frame the totality and truth of the moment.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
It is an insider's look at the ballet, but one that only an insider will get the most out of.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Hewitt
I don't know much about ballet, and I liked the elaborately detailed La Danse, but I suspect dance buffs are going to devour it.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A unique kind of magic: a documentary about the work in art that is itself a work of art.
San Francisco Chronicle
John R. Killacky
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, Frederick Wiseman's astoundingly beautiful documentary, has sumptuous delights to satisfy every balletomane.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Captures the fleeting beauty of ballet in dozens of miniature portraits, each quietly soaring. This movie just goes up there and stays there, and it's magical.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A rapturous (if occasionally disorienting) dance film precisely choreographed with seeming artlessness.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Bodies in motion tend to remain in motion, but almost never with the heart-stirring beauty and grace on view in Frederick Wiseman's exceptional portrait of the Paris Opera Ballet, La Danse.
The Simon
Tim Grierson
Sweeping, elegant, completely enjoyable, but rarely revelatory.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
One of the finest dance films ever made, but there's more to it than that.
AV Club
Sam Adams
At a shade over two and a half hours, La Danse is compact by Wiseman's standards, and it feels much shorter, gracefully flowing from ballerinas en pointe to construction workers patching cracks in the ceiling.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Offers a portrait of suppleness and agility -- not just that of the dancers' bodies, but also of the august institution of the title.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
A portrait of one of the world's great companies by one of the world's great vrit documentarians.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
Wiseman is principally concerned with process here, the process of art's creation and, to a lesser degree, the process of an institution's functioning.
The New Yorker
David Denby
It's a joyous experience to see an institution in full flower-- to see not dereliction and disorder but the many forms of striving and virtue.
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