Dancers (1987) (original) (raw)
Synopsis
A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee.
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Poor, poor boy slutted too close to the sun and discovered yearning. They write myths about that shit.
"I know you're trying to just be a guy, but you're also a great artist. And really you’re the greatest person I’ve ever stood close to before in my life. And I just wanna say that if I can ever do anything for you, ever be anything to you… I just meant that if I could mean anything to you, I would love it. I mean I would love you."
Says the blushing young dancer to the aging genius Baryshnikov.
Just an example of how bad this is.
I don't understand how one can be so obsessed with a man just because he's a great dancer! ;)
(Mind you, we almost never see him dance. We just know he must be amazing since he's drowning in an ocean of pussy.)
GIRLIE NO HE DIDNT MAKE YOU FEEL SPECIAL HE WAS PREYING ON YOU GIRL RUN
Shallow on character development, deep on the Baryshnikov focus. But, there was a meaningful tattoo to wrap it up — a literal “show not tell” moment that made dating three women at once all okay. Overall, movie kind of bad, dancing good
Stumbled upon this movie and when I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov was in it, I had to watch. But this is definitely a film of two distinct halves. The first half deals with a story of rehearsing to film Giselle, with a new young dancer arriving catching the eye of the older Baryshnikov and it's quite terrible. But the second half of the film is the performance when filming Giselle and that part is magical! So magical it makes you wish the film was just the entire performance of Giselle and none of the other stuff. At the end there is a final tie up of the story that made me laugh with how ridiculous it was but at least we…
99 minutes of Baryshnikov in tights? Say no more...
2024 spring forward into a trashfire challenge: any movie from my watchlist.
scavenger hunt 108: featuring a ghost.
5 stars for the ballet sequences and I appreciate the attempt to try something different in depicting the behind-the-scenes drama of a ballet production, but the story was really lacking and most of the acting was pretty bad. Maybe would have been better just to film the entire performance of Giselle instead of adding the side plot since it was rather weak.
I also think it was a mistake to frame Baryshnikov as the lead instead of Julie Kent's character because then we were meant to identify more with his egotistical womanizer instead of seeing him as such, through the eyes of…
I would rate it 3-3½ but that last act deserves 4 stars. misha and alessandra ferri's dancing was ✨✨✨ she was so ethereal, her ballon was impeccable and that dress made her look like a ghost for real. what can I even say about baryshnikov tbh he's the only man ever. I didn't gaf about the main storyline so I'm very glad we got the ballet lol 😭
yeah yeah the acting is bad blah blah blah but the second half of the movie with the entire act II of giselle is so incredible 🗣️🗣️
There's no need to say that the dancing sequences are superb since we're looking at Baryshnikov in his prime years and the film is worth checking out just for them. But the basic story is weak and the leading actress is painfully bad.
all I’m saying is that Carrie Bradshaw picked the wrong deep pockets & the Russian was wildly misunderstood
Gisselle no es mi favorito pero lo logro apreciar, grande el ex de Carrie Bradshaw 🙂↕️