Paris Ballet Follies
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Robert Gottlieb A scene from La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (Zipporah Films) Your take on Frederick Wiseman’s La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet — a two-and-a-half hour documentary opening on November 4th at New York’s Film Forum—will depend on your feelings about ballet, about Wiseman, and about the Paris Opera Ballet itself. I start at a disadvantage. The more I see of the...