2016 · animation · adventure · family
Ballerina
Directed by Eric Summer1h 29m2016
In 1879 Paris, a young orphan dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
Our read: Ballerina (2016) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · adventure · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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How Ballerina feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a colorful animated underdog ballet adventure set in Belle Époque Paris.”
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