The Dancer (2016)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The dancer |
| Original title | La danseuse |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stéphanie Di Giusto |
| script | Stéphanie Di Giusto Sarah Thibau |
| production | Alain Attal |
| music | Max Richter |
| camera | Benoît Debie |
| cut | Géraldine Mangenot |
| occupation | |
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The dancer (original title: La danseuse ) is a French dance film by Stéphanie Di Giusto from 2016. It deals with the life of the avant-garde dancer Loïe Fuller .
action
America in 1892: Mary Louise Fuller is in her mid-twenties, lives with her father in the American wilderness and dreams of becoming an actress. When her father is shot, she escapes to her mother in a women's convention in Brooklyn. Her first engagement as an actress ends with revealing photos and her rape by the photographer. At the second engagement she is supposed to play a hypnotized patient with a skirt that is too long. When she stumbles over her skirt on stage, she pulls it up and begins to playfully dance with the panels. The audience is thrilled. Mary Louise gives herself the stage name Loïe Fuller and starts working on her dance career. She sews a wide cloak out of sheets, extends her arms with long wooden poles and sets the fabric in motion with arm circles. She appears in her theater during the break and the visitors are thrilled. Her appearance also aroused the interest of Count Louis d'Orsay, who gave her lighter material for a new costume. He recommends her to go to Paris, because the Folies Bergère variety theater would give her modern dance a real chance and she can also have her art protected in France. When Loïe realizes that other dancers are imitating their dance, she steals money from Louis and travels to Paris.
In Paris, she cannot convince the director of the Folies Bergère, Edouard Marchand, of her skills, but his assistant, Gabrielle Bloch, is impressed by Loïe and is given two weeks to convince Edouard and the audience of Loïe's skills. Otherwise, both women will be fired. Loïe began to train hard, had the white costume enlarged significantly and designed a lighting control system that was unusual for the time. Her appearance on Antonio Vivaldi's Spring is a sensational success. A short time later, Louis arrives in Paris. He is in debt; Loïe pays for his debts and moves into his castle with Gabrielle and numerous dancers. Here they create new choreographies, including those for Vivaldi's summer , which also meet with an enthusiastic audience. For Loïe, who always wanted to go to the opera, a personal dream is now coming true: thanks to Louis' mediation, she can perform at the Paris Opera .
The rehearsal time pushes Loïe to her physical limits. Since she wants to surpass her theater programs, she opts for particularly powerful lamps that attack her eyes with their luminosity. Due to their strength, the lamps are also considered dangerous for artists and the public. Physically, Loïe suffers from training and has constant pain and injuries. Other circumstances do not make it easy for her either: Louis is depressed and permanently suicidal and with the young and graceful Isadora Duncan a new dancer has joined Loïes team, who will soon become Loïes new competitor. Loïe recognizes Isadora's talent and begins to promote her. She is supposed to dance as a preliminary act for her performance in the Paris Opera, but there are increasing arguments between the two women. The director of the Paris Opera, Armand Duponchel, is soon more taken with Isadora, against whom Loïe's dance style seems clumsy. Isadora, in turn, realizes her worth and wants to negotiate a better deal with Loïe. She suspects that Loïe is interested in her, begins to seduce her and leaves the city with the advice to return to Loïe for a better contract. Loïe collapses completely on the eve of her performance at the Paris Opera. Although no one thinks it's possible, the next day she performs and dances for her life. During the dance one of the strong lamps suddenly explodes and Loïe falls from her stage platform. Although their performance is canceled, the audience is enthusiastic about their dance. Louis did not follow the performance - he takes his own life, which Loïe learns from Gabrielle after her performance.
Some time later, Loïe, Gabrielle and the dancers still live in Louis' castle. Loïe receives the documents that will protect her dance choreographies by copyright. All she has to do is sign it.
production
The dancer was Stéphanie Di Giusto's directorial debut. The film is loosely based on Loïe Fuller's biography . Danseuse de la belle époque by Giovanni Lista . He almost completely omits Fuller's openly lived out homosexuality. The film was accused of the fact that Fuller, who surrounded herself exclusively with women in real life, also received a male lover in the film with the fictional character of Count Louis d'Orsay. Director Di Giusto commented on the allegations: "Loïe Fuller was a lesbian, and it was important to me that this does not become the subject of the film."
The film was shot from the end of September 2015 in Château-l'Hermitage (priory and church), Paris (including Opéra Garnier , mirror dance scene in the Opéra de Paris ) and in Vichy (including Opéra de Vichy , Hôtel Aletti Palace ). In October 2015, filming also took place in Fontainebleau Castle. Scenes set in America were shot in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region (including Allier ), and further recordings were made in the Czech Republic. Anaïs Romand created the costumes and Carlos Conti created the film . SoKo shot all the dance scenes herself. Before filming, she trained seven hours a day for two months.
The dancer premiered on May 13, 2016 at the Cannes International Film Festival , where it was shown in the Un certain regard series. It was shown in French cinemas on September 28, 2016, where it was seen by around 91,000 viewers. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on June 25, 2016 at the Munich Film Festival and was released in cinemas on November 3, 2016.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Loïe Fuller | SoKo | Janina Dietz |
| Isadora Duncan | Lily-Rose Depp | Lea Kalbhenn |
| Jeff | Charlie Morgan | Jan Langer |
Awards
The dancer was nominated for the Golden Camera, the Queer Palm and the Prix Un certain regard in Cannes in 2016 , but won none of the prizes. In 2017 the film received a nomination at the Prix Lumières for the Prix Heike Hurst for the best debut work as well as nominations for a Prix Lumières in the categories of best young actress (Lily-Rose Depp), best actress (SoKo) and best cinematography (Benoît Debie) . Debie was also nominated for a Magritte in the category Best Cinematography in 2017 .
Anaïs Romand won a César in the category Best Costumes for The Dancer in 2017 . The film received further César nominations in the categories of Best Lead Actress (SoKo), Best Supporting Actress (Mélanie Thierry), Best Young Actress (Lily-Rose Depp), Best Production Design (Carlos Conti) and Best First Work (Stéphanie Di Giusto, Alain Attal).
Web links
- The dancer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The dancer on allocine.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Dancer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ a b Manuela Kay: Eccentric dancer and figure of light . l-mag.de, accessed on November 10, 2017.
- ↑ Lily-Rose Depp, rival de Soko in “La Danseuse” . toutlecine.challenges.fr, October 1st, 2015.
- ↑ Ca s'est tourné près de chez vous: La danseuse on musee-chateau-fontainebleau.fr
- ↑ La danseuse on filmfrance.net.
- ↑ Klhoé Dominguez, Anthony Verdot-Belaval: Soko: “La danseuse, c'est moi” . parismatch.com, September 28, 2016.
- ↑ Box Office on allocine.fr
- ^ The dancer in the German dubbing file