After four years of absence from the screens, Cédric Klapisch returns with In body Wednesday March 30, interpreted by the first dancer at the Paris Opera, Marion Barbeau, who is also leading a contemporary career. The director signs one of his best films, of a visual beauty of every moment. It recounts the conversion of a classical dancer to modern dance, after an accident which could have prohibited her from exercising forever. his art .
At 26, Elise is a great dancer at the Paris Opera with a career path to becoming Etoile. During a performance of The Bayadere, she hurts herself and learns that she will not be able to dance anymore. She works for an artist residency where she meets a contemporary dance company. It is there that she will gradually reconnect with her art, and open up to a new life.
At the heart of the film and all the shots, Marion Barbeau dazzles with the grace with which she exercises her art, but also with her acting. Her character resonates with her career, a rare opera dancer to pursue a career in classical and contemporary art. But Klapisch takes liberties by introducing an injury as a trigger for his conversion, dramatizing the scenario at the same time.
This shock, Marion Barbeau translates all the trauma, that of a life shattered for half a second of inattention. A real suspense results from this collapse of which the dancer-actress transmits all the disarray but also the will to bounce back. A strength acquired in the demanding art of dance that she applies in her daily conduct. It is no less light, drawn upwards, open to everything, even love through the revelation of a new art.
A beautiful scenario, superb images, Cédric Klapisch is passionate about his subject. It is wonderfully served by Hofesh Shechter, Israeli choreographer, and Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk), composer (Why is the music not yet in the bins?). The filmmaker seems to apply a completely choreographic discipline in his production, he who has rather accustomed us to a formal nonchalance, full of atmosphere, but realistic, if not naturalistic. In body is perhaps, from this point of view, his most ambitious and successful film: dance now!
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Kind : Drama
Director: Cedric Klapisch
Actors : Marion Barbeau, Hofesh Shechter, Denis Podalydès, Muriel Robin, Pio Marmaï, François Civil
Duration : 2:00
Country : France
Exit : March 30, 2022
Distributer : StudioCanal
Synopsis : Elise, 26, is a great classical dancer. She gets injured during a show and learns that she can no longer dance. From then on her life will be turned upside down, Elise will have to learn to repair herself… Between Paris and Brittany, according to encounters and experiences, disappointments and hopes, Elise will get closer to a contemporary dance company. This new way of dancing will allow him to find a new impetus and also a new way of life.