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Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshLos Angeles TimesKatie WalshThe Dancer is such a bold and assured film, wildly creative and sensual, that it feels far more sophisticated than a debut, and signals Di Giusto as one to watch.
- 50RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaRogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaThe Dancer clearly needed a better task master behind the camera. There are too many scenes of Fuller physically and mentally suffering for her art as she questions if what she does actually qualifies as dance.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe strength of the film is its portrait of a female artist at work, doing all the complex backstage and business chores her career requires.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinAn airy, prettily accoutered but essentially vapid feature debut for writer-director Stephanie De Giusto.
- 40VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergMore problematic, even if we accept the film as pure fiction, is its pedestrian construction and ill-conceived script, unlikely to spark interest in one of the most innovative and influential performers of the last century and a quarter.
- 38Slant MagazineDerek SmithSlant MagazineDerek SmithLike Loïe Fuller's serpentine dance, the film is structured on repetition: spinning and spinning but never actually taking us nowhere.
- 30The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThis movie, which stars Stéphanie Sokolinski, the French musician known as Soko, in the role of Fuller, only comes alive during the dance sequences.