Nureyev

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Director:Jacqui Morris, David Morris
Cast:Rudolf Nureyev, Dame Siân Phillips, Dana Fouras, Lucia Lacarra
Length:109 minutes
Genre:Documentary

Nureyev

Nureyev; Jacqui Morris,David Morris, 2019, versions: OR,SS,ES, languages: eng

Director: Jacqui Morris, David Morris • Scenario: Jacqui Morris, David Morris • Camera: Michael Wood • Cast: Rudolf Nureyev, Dame Siân Phillips, Dana Fouras, Lucia Lacarra

To plunge into this saga, and to see what it was that made Rudolf Nureyev onstage such a furious and transporting poet-of-the-body, is to be at once moved and awed. The directors of Nureyev, Jacqui Morris and David Morris, present a great deal of dance footage that has never been seen before, and it’s a thrill to behold; nothing tells Nureyev’s story half as well as simply staring at him in his prime (in pieces choreographed by Martha Graham, Paul Taylor, and Murray Louis, among others, as well as older footage from his Russian days). The film has been made with straight-up chronological skill, but there’s a minor innovation to Nureyev, and it works beautifully. It’s structured as a talking-head documentary, with the voices of friends, associates, and biographers mixed into the narrative. But though each speaker is named on screen, we don’t see any of them speaking; their words, some culled from old interview tapes, become pure narration. Not so much timely as eternal.

Source: Art Film Fest 2019

Length: 109 min

Year: 2019

Country of origin:

  • United Kingdom

Language version:

OR - Original version (english)
SS - Slovak subtitles
ES - English subtitles

Director: Jacqui Morris, David Morris • Scenario: Jacqui Morris, David Morris • Camera: Michael Wood • Cast: Rudolf Nureyev, Dame Siân Phillips, Dana Fouras, Lucia Lacarra

To plunge into this saga, and to see what it was that made Rudolf Nureyev onstage such a furious and transporting poet-of-the-body, is to be at once moved and awed. The directors of Nureyev, Jacqui Morris and David Morris, present a great deal of dance footage that has never been seen before, and it’s a thrill to behold; nothing tells Nureyev’s story half as well as simply staring at him in his prime (in pieces choreographed by Martha Graham, Paul Taylor, and Murray Louis, among others, as well as older footage from his Russian days). The film has been made with straight-up chronological skill, but there’s a minor innovation to Nureyev, and it works beautifully. It’s structured as a talking-head documentary, with the voices of friends, associates, and biographers mixed into the narrative. But though each speaker is named on screen, we don’t see any of them speaking; their words, some culled from old interview tapes, become pure narration. Not so much timely as eternal.

Source: Art Film Fest 2019

Year: 2019

Country of origin:

  • United Kingdom

Language version:

OR - Original version (english)
SS - Slovak subtitles
ES - English subtitles