The Dancer 2016
108minutes
Release Date
Taiwan
cinema
Hong Kong
cinema
Original Title
La Danseuse
Hong Kong Title
The Dancer
Plot Synopsis
Born in the American Midwest, nothing in her background destined farm girl Loïe Fuller to become the toast of Europe's Belle Epoque cabarets, even less to dance at the Paris Opera. Hidden behind metres of silk, her arms extended by long wooden rods, Loïe reinvents her body on stage and enthrals her audiences a little more every night with her revolutionary Serpentine dance. Dazzling the capital, she becomes an icon, the blazing symbol of a generation. Eminent admirers fall at her feet: Toulouse-Lautrec, the Lumière Brothers, Rodin. Even if the physical effort risks destroying her back, even if the glare of the stage lights sears her eyes, she will never falter in the quest to perfect her art. But her meeting with Isadora Duncan - a young prodigy hungry for glory - will lead to the downfall of this icon of the early 20th century... The remarkable destiny of a modern woman who revolutionised her era.
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Director
Cast
Marie-Louise Fuller - dite Loïe Fuller
Le comte Louis d'Orsay
Gabrielle Bloch
Isadora Duncan