The Dancer and the Dance | Tony Palmer's Film About Margot Fonteyn

Margot | Tony Palmer's Film About Margot Fonteyn | Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann

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	• Tony Palmer's Film About Margot Fonteyn Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann Kultur Video, 2006 average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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Margot

An amazing insight into the life of a fabulous woman and ballerina, she was. What shame she died in the circumstances that she did. I always treasure the chance, I had to see her dance here in Australia.
This is a must for every Balletomains' collection.

The Dancer and the Dance

Yeats asked "How can we tell the dancer from the dance?" This film unfortunately separates the two almost throughout. The footage of dancing with Fonteyn is always a pleasure to see. She embodies the British ideal of lyrical drama. As an actress she has never been surpassed in ballet, and her lyrical style is the antithesis of the athletic-gymnastic style of almost every other classical school. But I am not interested in, nor do I want to know, about all the problems of her private life. If a performer is a singer or a dancer, let them sing or dance. What they do in their private life is not of interest. This film spends, for me, too much time on the problems in her private life. Perhaps the title "Margot" should have warned me. I would like to see a sister-film entitled "Fonteyn" with as close attention to her development as a dancer as this film devotes to her life.

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Margot

Palmer's long but well-balanced and consistently absorbing documentary is one of the more striking examples of the dichotomy of celebrity, with great public acclaim set against a private life of mostly contained misery. Clearly Dame Margot was a woman of remarkable beauty, drive and talent. Yet not bad luck but a blind spot deep in her character would leave her broke and isolated at the end of her illustrious career, tethered to a man who did not merit her devotion. Palmer's film is a piercingly insightful portrait of an enigmatic woman who was at once the most famed of ballerinas, yet still a lonely and failed human being.

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margot fontayne

Any one who loves ballet and Margot Fontayne in particular will love this movie, more like a documentry, excellently produced and a pleasure to watch.

Dedication, Diligence and Devotion

Dedicated to her profession, diligent in her study and devoted to her beliefs in family and commitments...this movie details the life of Margot Fonteyn with the same passion and feeling that Fonteyn exhibited in her dance. Wonderful film clips, photographs and well-researched history of a beautiful and sometimes controversial dancer, whose life was as facinating as the characters she portrayed. This film documents both sides of the professional dancer...the glory of fame, the physical and mental demands of being the best and, the very personal, hidden life of a world-famous ballerina.

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Margot Fonteyn was the greatest dancer England has ever produced. In her life she transcended the world of dance and became a tabloid darling second to none, a true celebrity. And when, already in her forties, Fonteyn teamed up with Rudolf Nureyev, their astonishing union created one of the most brilliant and magical partnerships in all of ballet history. Their artistic and sexual chemistry electrified all those who were lucky enough to watch them perform.

But her remarkable talent and façade of fastidious primness masked a dark torrent within. Fonteyn?s life was the stuff of unimaginable fiction: taken as an underage mistress; married to a Panamanian Ambassador; involved in an attempted coup; the lover of innumerable, often homosexual, public figures; a cultural icon of the swinging sixties; betrayed by her husband?s family, and, above all, a dancer of extraordinary physical eloquence and purity ? all culminating in this fragile beauty dying a penniless, lonely recluse.

This gripping film uncovers a mountain of archive footage, including memorable performances with Nureyev, and meetings with those who danced with her, knew her, and loved her.

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