THE DANCER

By Stephanie DI GIUSTO

PALACE FILMS - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, AUSTRALIA, New Zealand

Drama - Completed 2016


Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2016
Un Certain Regard
Busan - BIFF/APM 2016
Flash Forward
Ventana Sur 2016
European Cinema
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Drama, Historical, Biography
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 108 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Stephanie DI GIUSTO
    • Synopsis
    • Born in the American Midwest, nothing in her background destined farm girl Loïe Fuller to become the toast of Europe’s Belle Epoque cabarets, even less to dance at the Paris Opera. Hidden behind metres of silk, her arms extended by long wooden rods, Loïe reinvents her body on stage and enthralls her audiences a little more every night with her revolutionary Serpentine dance. Dazzling the capital, she becomes an icon, the blazing symbol of a generation. Eminent admirers fall at her feet: Toulouse-Lautrec, the Lumière Brothers, Rodin. Even if the physical effort risks destroying her back, even if the glare of the stage lights sears her eyes, she will never falter in the quest to perfect her art. But her meeting with Isadora Duncan – a young prodigy hungry for glory – will lead to the downfall of this icon of the early 20th century… The remarkable destiny of a modern woman who revolutionized her era.