8/14/2023 0 Comments Isadora 1968But when that romance is over, the filmmaker takes his diva right along into the arms of another man. When she's in a man's arms, staring into his eyes, it's fitting that Reisz should intercut shots of Isadora dancing alone on a bare stage, photographed from above. It's tumultuous and melodramatic and volatile, but there must have been more to Isadora Duncan than her craving for male companionship and her affection for the Soviets. The film looks beautiful, but it isn't beautifully realized. While Redgrave is certainly lovely (US movie posters advertised the film with a pink-tinted photograph of a bare Vanessa romantically covering up, her eyes dreamily closed)-and, in performance, her long arms are eloquent and expressive-one can immediately tell director Reisz is protecting his star with his editing. ![]() In the lead, Vanessa Redgrave is not a dancer, nor is she American-and she can't imitate either (her exaggerated American accent has a monotone twang, as if she were speaking English phonetically). Isadora's lovers, Paris Singer (Jason Robards), Gordon Craig (James Fox) and Sergey Esenin (Ivan Tchenko) are portrayed as the fuel to her fire (and this following a prologue featuring a 12-year-old Isadora vowing allegiance to her art over love). ![]() Karel Reisz's film was retitled "The Loves of Isadora" in the US, shifting the emphasis from Isadora to the men in her life, and one might be tempted to say the movie follows suit. Reviewed by moonspinner55 6 / 10 "Like all artists, I'm a true revolutionary."Ī showy but empty biography, a scrapbook of lifetime memories as dictated by internationally-acclaimed modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), whose gaily eccentric behavior in her later years is shown to be akin to that of Auntie Mame, by way of Paris and San Francisco.
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