The Dancer's reviews

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María Caballero

85

Di Giusto grandstanding sometimes suffocation, but the poetic cadence exceeds any attempt to empty perfume. 'The Dancer' effectively circumvents the canonical biopic and knows how to move between aesthetic decadence.

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El País

Jordi Costa

80

The most powerful comes with fragments imaginative film-developing contemporary dance, sensory and immersive language.

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Cahiers du Cinéma

Jean-Philippe Tessé

71

There is a real desire to celebrate this extravagant beauty, and the film takes as long as it does not leave his heroine (...) It could have, and would have had a different extent, be abolished and burning in the show always again iridescent gyrations of the dancer.

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El Mundo

Alberto Bermejo

70

Great and reliable reconstructions of the dance and the conviction of the actress Soko.

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The Hollywood Reporter

Leslie Felperin

70

An airy, prettily accoutered first film.

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Le Monde

Noémie Luciani

70

Having set the challenge to recreate on screen the art of the dancer Loie Fuller, Parisian feel of the early twentieth century, Stephanie Di Giusto offers uneven film, uninspired when it tackles the passion of love, but captivating and finely staged when it is interested in artistic creation.

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Variety

Jay Weissberg

65

Not that Soko?s interpretation of Fuller?s performances disappoint.

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Cinemanía

Yago García

60

Its staging manages to give some idea of the effort exerted by its protagonist

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