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Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.2/10
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Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Nov 4, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $283,995
Synopsis: In Wiseman’s 38th film John Davey’s camera roams the vast Palais Garnier, an opulent 19th century pile of a building: from its crystal chandelier-laden corridors to its labyrinthine underground... [More]
Director: Frederick Wiseman
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The fact that the 79-year-old Frederick Wiseman is still making movies after his debut in the mid-1960s demonstrates that there's still a market for his work, and if he continues to make first rate documentaries like' La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet,' th
Without the distractions of 'documentary' data, the film becomes a pure, almost meditative experience...
A unique kind of magic: a documentary about the work in art that is itself a work of art.
Top CriticA remarkably intimate and nearly meditative cinematic experience, as Wiseman all but embeds his audience with the ballet.
La Danse easily qualifies as a must-see for any ballet fan, and even two-left-footers may discover a new appreciation for the art.
Wiseman's camera wanders upstairs, downstairs, backstage, and even to the Garnier's rooftop apiary.
Wiseman is precise, revealing to the viewer exactly what he wants you to see, in sync with the company's cautious administration.
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, Frederick Wiseman's astoundingly beautiful documentary, has sumptuous delights to satisfy every balletomane.
Top CriticCaptures 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.
The effort of the Paris Opera Company is astonishing, but La danse is a documentary triumph, making the mundane components of perfectionism feel as tense and engrossing as any fireball-happy Hollywood blockbuster.
A rapturous (if occasionally disorienting) dance film precisely choreographed with seeming artlessness.
Top CriticBodies 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.
Top CriticWork is at the center of Frederick Wiseman's absorbing documentary, La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet.
One of the finest dance films ever made, but there’s more to it than that.
Top CriticAt 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.
Wiseman’s films are as much living organisms as they are subjective portraits.
Offers a portrait of suppleness and agility -- not just that of the dancers' bodies, but also of the august institution of the title.
Top CriticA portrait of one of the world’s great companies by one of the world’s great vérité documentarians.
Top CriticWiseman is principally concerned with process here, the process of art's creation and, to a lesser degree, the process of an institution's functioning.
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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