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THE DANCER

By Stephanie DI GIUSTO

VITAGRAPH FILMS - as DISTR Theatrical, DVD-video

Drama - Completed 2016

In 1887 a young woman pursuing a career as an actress leaves the American West and goes on to become the toast of the Folies Bergeres in Paris and on stages around the world.

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 108 mn
- Director(s)
- Stephanie DI GIUSTO
- Writer(s)
- Sarah THIBAU, Stephanie DI GIUSTO
- Cast
- Gaspar ULLIEL, Mélanie THIERRY, Soko , Lily-Rose DEPP
- Producer(s)
- Phillippe LOGIE, Alain ATTAL
- Synopsis
- There was nothing in her background to prepare Loae to become the toast of the Folies Bergeres 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 LoAe Fuller. She embarks on a new, hectic life, leaving New York, where imitators try to steal her radical innovations, for Paris. At the Folies Bergares, she dazzles the capital, and illustrious admirers fall at her feet. Toulouse Lautrec, the Lumiere Brothers, Rodin... the Electric Fairy becomes an icon, the blazing symbol of a generation. But fame isn't all.