Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
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Release Date: Mar 20, 1980 Wide
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Average Rating: 2.5/5
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The deeper, broader issues behind the rise and fall of one of the world's greatest ballet dancers and choreographers, Vaslav Nijinksy (1888-1950), is not at the fulcrum of this two-hour British biographical drama. Director Herbert Ross and screenwriter Hugh Wheeler base the film on Nijinsky's diaries and his wife's book Nijinsky but what they portray are the years between 1912-1913 and Nijinsky's affair with Sergei Diaghliev, his mentor and the impresario and founder of Ballets Russes. With the
Mar 20, 1980 Wide
Nov 16, 1994
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (3)
... this unorthodox documentary works for those who have a sensitivity to the artist and to his struggles against such a cold and indifferent world.
It's arty to a fault and also a complete mess, the kind of thing that could make even the staunchest aesthete yearn for a Hollywood action flick.
A bold and imaginatively realized profile of a defiant artist slowly sinking into madness.
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