The Dancer

The Dancer

La danseuse
🎞️ Movie 108 min FR
โ˜… 6.5 /10 2016

There was nothing in her background to prepare Loïe to become the toast of the Folies Bergères in Paris and stages across the world. Then she created the 'Serpentine Dance'... 1887. After the death of her gold prospector father, 25-year-old Marie-Louise leaves her life in the American West to join her mother in New York and pursue her heart's dream - becoming an actress. One night on stage, becoming tangled in her long dress, she avoids falling by spinning the fabric in a graceful, magical gesture: the 'Serpentine Dance' is born. The audience - shocked, then overwhelmed - calls out for more. Marie-Louise has become Loïe Fuller. She embarks on a new, hectic life, leaving New York, where imitators try to steal her radical innovations, for Paris. At the Folies Bergères, she dazzles the capital, and illustrious admirers fall at her feet. Toulouse Lautrec, the Lumière Brothers, Rodin... the Electric Fairy becomes an icon, the blazing symbol of a generation. But fame isn't all. An encounter with the young, spellbinding Isadora Duncan will disrupt her turbulent love affair with Louis and her complex relationship with her devoted assistant Gabrielle, and risk the very essence of her art.

Cast

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Marie-Louise 'Loïe' Fuller
Gaspard Ulliel
Gaspard Ulliel
Le comte Louis d'Orsay
Mélanie Thierry
Mélanie Thierry
Gabrielle Bloch
Lily-Rose Depp
Lily-Rose Depp
Isadora Duncan
François Damiens
François Damiens
Edouard Marchand - le directeur artistique des Folies-Bergère
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Armand Duponchel - le directeur de l'Opéra
Amanda Plummer
Amanda Plummer
Lili - la mère de Loïe
Denis Ménochet
Denis Ménochet
Ruben - le père de Loïe
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Charlie Morgan
Jeff
Tamzin Merchant
Tamzin Merchant
Kate
Max Richter
Max Richter
Composer
Benoît Debie
Benoît Debie
Cinematographer

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