La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (PG)
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Your support makes all the difference.The veteran documentary-maker Wiseman observes the dancers and staff of the Paris Opera Ballet at work. The backstage scenes are fascinating and often beautiful.
Wiseman uses the length – two and a half hours – to create a rhythm, rather than the artificial, cramped narrative of a TV documentary. But his gaze is uncritical – the only really dark moment comes when the artistic director praises a twig of a ballerina for having lost weight.
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