Isadora ( The Loves of Isadora )

Isadora (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Loves of Isadora
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
144 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1968 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Karel Reisz

Written By:
Melvyn Bragg

Actors:
Vanessa Redgrave ..... Isadora Duncan
John Fraser ..... Roger
James Fox ..... Gordon Craig
Jason Robards ..... Singer
Zvonimir Crnko ..... Essenin
Vladimir Leskovar ..... Bugatti
Cynthia Harris ..... Mary Desti
Bessie Love ..... Mrs. Duncan
Tony Vogel ..... Raymond Duncan
Libby Glenn ..... Elizabeth Duncan
Ronnie Gilbert ..... Miss Chase
Wallas Eaton ..... Archer
Nicholas Pennell ..... Bedford
John Quentin ..... Pim
Christian Duvaleix ..... Armand - a feeble pianist in love with Isadora

Synopsis:

Vanessa Redgrave stars in this film biography of the free-spirited, modern, interpretive dancer Isadora Duncan. Trained in classical dance, Duncan shattered the traditional conformities in her art and her personal life. The film begins at the end of her life as she recalls the past while dictating her memoirs to her male secretary. Her uninhibited sexuality and insistence on personal freedom and expression shocked more conservative and narrow-minded patrons and audiences. She brought in elements of classic Greek dance during the height of the jazz age and had children in and out of wedlock. Married to sewing-machine heir Paris Singer (Jason Robards) and the Russian poet Sergei Essenin (Ivan Tchenko), her life was a rollercoaster ride of success and tragic failures. Two of her children drowned when her chauffeur left the car unattended and the vehicle plunged into a river. Duncan lived by her own rules, often shunned by the very people who had so passionately embraced her pioneering efforts in dance, women's liberation and free thinking. Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar for her performance.

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

Biopic covers the life of Isadora Duncan, a pioneer of modern dance and a free-thinking woman, boldy liberated for her time.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 20 March, 2011.

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