Dancer (The)
Original Title
La Danseuse- Director: Stéphanie Di Giusto
- Writer: Stéphanie Di Giusto; Giovanni Lista
- Producer: Alain Attal; Marie Jardillier
CGiii Comment
There was nothing in her background to prepare Loïe to become the toast of the Folies Bergères in Paris and stages across the world. Then she created the 'Serpentine Dance'... 1887. After the death of her gold prospector father, 25-year-old Marie-Louise leaves her life in the American West to join her mother in New York and pursue her heart's dream - becoming an actress.
One night on stage, becoming tangled in her long dress, she avoids falling by spinning the fabric in a graceful, magical gesture: the "Serpentine Dance" is born. The audience - shocked, then overwhelmed - calls out for more. Marie-Louise has become Loïe Fuller. She embarks on a new, hectic life, leaving New York, where imitators try to steal her radical innovations, for Paris. At the Folies Bergères, she dazzles the capital, and illustrious admirers fall at her feet. Toulouse Lautrec, the Lumière Brothers, Rodin... the Electric Fairy becomes an icon, the blazing symbol of a generation. But fame isn't all.
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Cast & Characters
Soko as Loie Fuller;
Gaspard Ulliel as Louis;
Melanie Thierry as Gabrielle;
Lily-Rose Melody Depp as Isadora Duncan;
Francois Damiens as Marchand;
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as Armand;
Denis Menochet as Ruben, Loie's father;
David Bowles as Journaliste Impatient;
Frans Boyer;
Petra Buckova as Housekeeper;
James Flynn as Le docteur;
William Houston as Rud;
Charlie Morgan as Jeff