![]() ![]() ![]() Five minutes into Broken Embraces and he's got half a dozen potential storylines spinning.Ĭhristopher Isherwood published his novel about a middle-aged homosexual grieving for a lost lover, the frank depiction of gay desire scandalized some readers. No filmmaker generates narrative like Pedro Almodóvar. Review: Broken Embraces, Review: A Single Man, Review: It's Complicated, More The rehearsals seem to emphasize illustrating the choreographer's idea (as opposed to letting the dancers dance), and when Medea pours blood over her children in Angelin Preljocaj's Le songe de Médée or the women start screaming in Mats Ek's La maison de Bernarda, Wiseman is apt as not to cut back to the sunlit city. Wiseman's camera wanders upstairs, downstairs, backstage, and even to the Garnier's rooftop apiary we see painters and janitors (all black), we visit the cafeteria (steam-table broccoli even in Paris), we listen in as the staff discuss a lunch for benefactors. READ: Documentary man, an interview with Frederick Wiseman, By Tom Meek. But for both company and audience, it's tough love, in Wiseman's usual fashion: no ID of the dancers (apart from the odd first name), no ID of any of the seven works they rehearse and perform (apart from what you see on placards), few subtitles. Frederick Wiseman's documentary is a love letter to Paris, to the Palais Garnier opera house (the Bastille gets a cameo), and the Paris Opera Ballet. ![]()
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