Isadora (1968)
Isadora (1968)
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Genre: Drama | Director: Karel Reisz
WEB-DL 1080p | MKV | 1920 x 1080 | x264 @ 9437 Kbps | 2h 19mn | 9,42 Gb
Audio: English E-AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English SDH (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama | Director: Karel Reisz
This biography of modern-dance pioneer Isadora Duncan (Vanessa Redgrave) details the performer's tumultuous life. The film reveals how the beautiful, outspoken and graceful American-born dancer rejected ballet and moved to Europe to pursue a freer form of movement. Duncan's many love affairs are also heavily featured, most notably her relationship with Paris Singer, an heir to the Singer sewing-machine fortune, and the volatile Russian writer Sergei Yesenin.
IMDB - 3 wins + Nominated for 1 Oscar
In his magisterial essay “Dancing in Films,” Lincoln Kirstein evinced a deep skepticism about the translation of the former art form into the latter. Yet he would ultimately grant a few exceptions. Kirstein was so impressed, for instance, by Vanessa Redgrave’s performance in Karel Reisz’s Isadora Duncan biopic that he was moved to submit a letter to the editor of Life in response to their review of the picture. “Vanessa Redgrave,” he wrote, “dances absolutely gloriously. You have no idea what this means to one in love with dancing. Whether Vanessa dances exactly as Isadora danced is impossible to say (I heard one great dancer say that she danced better, but Isadora was never popular with Russian teachers). Vanessa’s dancing breathes the effect Duncan had on the world. Not alone is she physically glorious, but she moves with a virtuosity, freedom, largeness of gesture and pathos that has not been seen in free dance since Martha Graham was a girl…. Redgrave’s choreographer, Litz Pisk, understood the essence of Isadora’s movement, and reconstructed it as an archaeologist might have restored the Pergamon Altar”.
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Isadora (1968)
