La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (PG)

Director: Fred Wiseman
France/USA/Japan/Finland, 2009, 2 hours 38 minutes

One of the unheralded giants of modern cinema, Wiseman, the grand old man of observational documentary, here turns his gently piercing gaze on the Paris Opera Ballet, in particular on the rehearsals and preparation for the 2008 season. This superb, utterly engrossing film dissects both an institution and an art-form with extraordinary skill and beauty. It shows the unremitting toil, the relentless, single-minded search for perfection that goes in to creating the transient beauty of the final, thrilling performance.

 “cinema at its most musical, an awe-inspiring celebration of body, mind and movement.” Time Out

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