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One Sublime Half Hour: Baryshnikov Makes Dancers Worthwhile |
| Section: THE ARTS / FILM |
| Author: J. Perceval |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 849 Words, 5,018 Characters |
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Mikhail Baryshnikov has presence to burn: he dominated the screen even when he is not dancing. But in the first half of Herbert Ross' film Dancers, the Baryshnikov presence is no proof against a silly story line.
Dancers takes as its premise an American ballet troupe's filming of the classic ballet Giselle under the direction of a celebrated Russian-born dancer in the handsome old Italian city of Bari.
Fair enough, if not especially original, but director Ross (The Turning Point, Nijinsky) and screenwriter Sarah Kernochan apparently decided the ballet would be more acceptable to movie audiences if its story li...
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... is a last reference to the ballet Giselle, wherein the village maid plucked petals from a daisy to learn whether Albrecht loved her or not.
Still, the simplicity and purity of Baryshnikov's line and the intensity and sincerity of his acting in the second act of Giselle make this a film not be missed, even if you have to close your mind to its first half. The last half-hour is sublime.
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