Isadora

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Isadora

PG,

1968,

2h 33m,

Biography

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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 (Jason Robards), an heir to the Singer sewing-machine fortune, and the volatile Russian writer Sergei Yesenin (Ivan Tchenko).

Penelope Gilliatt

The New Yorker

Jul 8, 2022

The picture is a wittily distanced account of a believable woman, and the attitude changes everything. If film biographies of the gifted are generally the dulled things they are, I think it is partly because the people making them are so concussed by awe.

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Zita Short

InSession Film

Feb 7, 2023

On paper Isadora is just a standard biopic about the life of dancer Isadora Duncan but it manages to cover the time she spent in the Soviet Union in great detail.

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Paul Schrader

Los Angeles Free Press

Jan 24, 2020

In Isadora Vanessa Redgrave finds the role she was made to create.

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Penelope Houston

The Spectator

Apr 25, 2016

I can't remember a biographical film that leaves one with less clearly defined feelings about the central character than Karel Reisz's Isadora -- or with less instinct for what the film-makers themselves really think about her.

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Jules Brenner

Cinema Signals

Jun 22, 2005

2/5

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jun 18, 2005

3/5

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Theodore S

May 4, 2017

I can't believe there are so few reviews of this excellent film! A major film with one of the best performances from one of the greatest actresses of the century! No it is not perfect. But Redgrave is so radiant and moving who cares?! Production values are tremendous as well. I love this film (obviously).

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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 (Jason Robards), an heir to the Singer sewing-machine fortune, and the volatile Russian writer Sergei Yesenin (Ivan Tchenko).

Director: Karel Reisz
Screenwriter: Melvyn Bragg, Clive Exton, Margaret Drabble
Rating: PG
Genre: Biography
Original Language: English
Runtime: 2h 33m

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