The Company (2003)
Country: US/GB/GER
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 112m
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco
Synopsis:
We observe Chicago's Joffrey Ballet as they prepare a new work by a French Canadian producer which revolves around jungle animals, and in particular the rising star of a young ballerina with an ambitious mother, who is injured on opening night.
Review:
Like Prêt à Porter the film ends with the unveiling of the innovative before an enraptured intelligentsia, after a couple of hours of fly on the wall stuff and a few other performances. The problem is that the climax packs no dramatic punch, particularly with its half-hearted romance and inconsequential injury on stage. The best moments centre around McDowell's turn as the artistic director, his hamminess just about held in check by the format but leaving little doubt about the vacuity at the heart of the all the hand-clapping and chair-straddling. A lot of the personal life material around Campbell's character could frankly have finished up on the cutting room floor. A mixed success from the aged master, one for dance aficionados only.
Country: US/GB/GER
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 112m
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco
Synopsis:
We observe Chicago's Joffrey Ballet as they prepare a new work by a French Canadian producer which revolves around jungle animals, and in particular the rising star of a young ballerina with an ambitious mother, who is injured on opening night.
Review:
Like Prêt à Porter the film ends with the unveiling of the innovative before an enraptured intelligentsia, after a couple of hours of fly on the wall stuff and a few other performances. The problem is that the climax packs no dramatic punch, particularly with its half-hearted romance and inconsequential injury on stage. The best moments centre around McDowell's turn as the artistic director, his hamminess just about held in check by the format but leaving little doubt about the vacuity at the heart of the all the hand-clapping and chair-straddling. A lot of the personal life material around Campbell's character could frankly have finished up on the cutting room floor. A mixed success from the aged master, one for dance aficionados only.
Country: US/GB/GER
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 112m
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco
Synopsis:
We observe Chicago's Joffrey Ballet as they prepare a new work by a French Canadian producer which revolves around jungle animals, and in particular the rising star of a young ballerina with an ambitious mother, who is injured on opening night.
Review:
Like Prêt à Porter the film ends with the unveiling of the innovative before an enraptured intelligentsia, after a couple of hours of fly on the wall stuff and a few other performances. The problem is that the climax packs no dramatic punch, particularly with its half-hearted romance and inconsequential injury on stage. The best moments centre around McDowell's turn as the artistic director, his hamminess just about held in check by the format but leaving little doubt about the vacuity at the heart of the all the hand-clapping and chair-straddling. A lot of the personal life material around Campbell's character could frankly have finished up on the cutting room floor. A mixed success from the aged master, one for dance aficionados only.