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Movie Info

In 1887, after the death of her father, 25-year-old Marie-Louise leaves her life in the American West to join her mother in New York and pursue her dream of becoming an actress. On stage one night, she avoids falling by spinning the fabric of her long dress in a graceful gesture, and the Serpentine Dance is born. The dazzled audience calls out for more. Marie-Louise becomes Loïe Fuller and leaves New York, where imitators try to steal her radical innovations, for Paris.

Genre:

biography, drama, history
Original Language:

French (France)
Director:

Stéphanie Di Giusto
Writer:

Stéphanie Di Giusto
Release Date (Theaters):

Dec 1, 2017 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 13, 2018
Runtime:

1h 51m
Production Co:

Wild Bunch
Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio:

Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

Soko
Marie-Louise Fuller - dite Loïe Fuller

Gaspard Ulliel
Le comte Louis d'Orsay

Mélanie Thierry
Gabrielle Bloch

Lily-Rose Depp
Isadora Duncan

François Damiens
Edouard Marchand

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Armand Duponchel

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Critic Reviews for The Dancer

All Critics (24) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (12)

If only Di Giusto more ambitiously broadened her scope, she would have made a fleet-footed tribute for the ages instead of stumbling over such rich possibilities.

December 1, 2017 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Susan Wloszczyna
RogerEbert.com
Uses much creative licence in retelling Fuller's life.

December 1, 2017 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Gayle MacDonald
Globe and Mail
"The Dancer" seems genuinely hostile to its subject, whose real-life accomplishments deserve better.

November 30, 2017 | Full Review…

Glenn Kenny
New York Times
Evasions of fact render the project suspect, but the chance to observe Fuller's genius realized onstage almost redeems it.

November 29, 2017 | Full Review…

Elizabeth Zimmer
Village Voice
Like Loe Fuller's serpentine dance, the film is structured on repetition: spinning and spinning but never actually taking us nowhere.

November 26, 2017 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Derek Smith
Slant Magazine
Ground-breaking dance innovator Loe Fuller gets a near-complete fictional overhaul in this unnecessary, formulaic biopic.

May 14, 2016 | Full Review…

Jay Weissberg
Variety
The Dancer will be a frustrating experience for pre-existing fans of Loie Fuller; more so the more they know her life story.

October 21, 2019 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…

Grant Watson
Fiction Machine
Artistically executed in its cinematography, Dancer is a poetic biopic of a young woman at the turn of the 20th Century.

August 16, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Brigid Presecky
FF2 Media
This is a beautiful and intelligent film but the show-stealer is unquestionably Benoît Debie's cinematography, particularly during Fuller's on-stage dance routines.

March 19, 2019 | Full Review…

Rachael Mead
Square Eyes
[Fuller] was the toast of the Folies Bergères...and an inspiration for Toulouse-Lautrec and the Lumière Brothers, but we see little of this, which seems a missed opportunity to inject vivacity and colour into a rather dull and ploddingly constructed film.

February 21, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Alexa Dalby
Dog and Wolf
While the story of The Dancer and Loïe Fuller is a fascinating one, the story we see onscreen may not be the best representation of the artist's full life.

August 6, 2018 | Full Review…

Morgan Rojas
Cinemacy
The Dancer doesn't venture from patterns of traditional biopics far enough to be called inspired, but it delivers a spirited, fully committed portrayal that allows you to observe a quintessential artist from the outside in.

August 3, 2018 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Zhuo-Ning Su
The Film Stage