Synopsis
A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon.
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Cast
- SoKoLoïe Fuller
- Gaspard UllielLouis
- Mélanie ThierryGabrielle
- Lily-Rose DeppIsadora Duncan
- François DamiensMarchand
- Louis-Do de LencquesaingArmand
- Denis MénochetRuben
- Amanda PlummerLili
- Charlie MorganJeff
- Tamzin MerchantKate
Recommendations
- 90
Los Angeles Times
The Dancer is such a bold and assured film, wildly creative and sensual, that it feels far more sophisticated than a debut, and signals Di Giusto as one to watch. - 50
RogerEbert.com
The Dancer clearly needed a better task master behind the camera. There are too many scenes of Fuller physically and mentally suffering for her art as she questions if what she does actually qualifies as dance. - 40
Village Voice
The strength of the film is its portrait of a female artist at work, doing all the complex backstage and business chores her career requires. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
An airy, prettily accoutered but essentially vapid feature debut for writer-director Stephanie De Giusto. - 40
Variety
More problematic, even if we accept the film as pure fiction, is its pedestrian construction and ill-conceived script, unlikely to spark interest in one of the most innovative and influential performers of the last century and a quarter. - 38
Slant Magazine
Like Loïe Fuller's serpentine dance, the film is structured on repetition: spinning and spinning but never actually taking us nowhere. - 30
The New York Times
This movie, which stars Stéphanie Sokolinski, the French musician known as Soko, in the role of Fuller, only comes alive during the dance sequences.
