Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World - by Ken Russell (1966)
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World - by Ken Russell (1966)
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Subs: English, Russian | Documentary, Biography
Subs: English, Russian | Documentary, Biography
Isadora Duncan was another self-taught primitive whose art was often regarded as a joke, and Isadora Duncan: The Biggest Dancer in the World gives the viewer ammunition to see her as a self-absorbed, hedonistic, loud and crass sham—except that she also clearly isn’t. As played by the brassy, unglamorous Vivian Pickles and with sympathetic narration by Sewell Stokes, who knew her, we understand Duncan as a courageous woman insisting on her freedom in a difficult life. It’s made partly difficult by her own excesses to be sure, for she’s at her most comfortable when kept by a married millionaire, but then we may ask: why must she keep a married millionaire happy in order to finance her dancing school and present her art to the masses? The answer: because life is hard when you don’t have a millionaire to keep happy.
As portrayed by Vivian Pickles, Isadora Duncan was an outsized personality barely capable of being reeled in by regular society. Every step along her later troubled career path was marked by the imprint of her own muscled feet in her always moving mouth. From the uneasy embracing of Communism, to her last gasp 'hoping for a payday' tours, she stands as an immovable object driven by an equally unfathomable force. This is perhaps the most disconcerting piece in the entire collection, a harsh criticism wrapped up in moments of the sheer joy in movement and the body's grace. Herself trained as a dancer, Pickles lights up the screen when she's onstage, Duncan's inflated ego disappearing into a series of carefully choreographed interpretations. Still, some might find the constant confrontations and shouting matches tiring. After all, Russell makes it clear that this was one artist who could have had it all had she just kept her mighty yap shut. Because she didn't, however, we see her downfall in all its brazen glory.
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Stars: Vivian Pickles, Peter Bowles, Alexei Jawdokimov
Production land: UK
Run time: ~67 min
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World - by Ken Russell (1966)
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World - by Ken Russell (1966)
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World - by Ken Russell (1966)
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World - by Ken Russell (1966)
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World - by Ken Russell (1966)
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World - by Ken Russell (1966)
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