2024 · music · history · drama
Boléro
Directed by Anne Fontaine2h 0m2024
Boundary-pushing Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein selects renowned French composer Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.
Our read: Boléro (2024) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded music · history · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured music / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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