La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Trailer
Frederick Wiseman's Paris Collection groups three documentaries: La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué (1996), La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009), and Crazy Horse (2011). Shot in Wiseman’s direct-cinema style—no interviews, no narration—they follow rehearsal, administration, casting, lighting, and the nightly demand to go onstage at the Comédie-Française, the Paris Opera Ballet, and the Crazy Horse nude revue. Taken together, the films are a study of how three historic Paris performance houses work, and of how bodies, craft, and looking are organized.
3 films
Frederick Wiseman (Director)
Emilie Cozette
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Brigitte Lefèvre
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Aurélie Dupont
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Dorothée Gilbert
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Marie-Agnès Gillot
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Agnès Letestu
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Delphine Moussin
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Kader Belarbi
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Clairemarie Osta
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Laëtitia Pujol
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Jérémie Bélingard
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Mathieu Ganio
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Manuel Legris
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Nicolas Le Riche
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José Martinez
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Hervé Moreau
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Benjamin Puech
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Wilfried Romoli
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La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Trailer
Frederick Wiseman observes the ins and outs of the Paris Opera House, including the processes behind seven of their operas: Genus (Wayne McGregor), Le Songe de Médée (Angelin Preljocaj), La Maison de Bernarda (Mats Ek), Paquita (Pierre Lacotte), Casse-Noisette (Rudolf Nureyev), Orphée et Eurydice (Pina Bausch), and Roméo et Juliette (Sasha Walt).
