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    Isadora (1968)

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    A remarkable film by any standards, Isadora is based on two works: My Life by Isadora Duncan (a dancer in the 1920s who forever changed people’s ideas of ballet with her nude, semi-nude and pro-Soviet dance projects – as well as her attitudes on lifestyle and free love) and An Intimate Portrait by Sewell Stokes.

    It is a wonderfully offbeat biography movie as witnessed through the eyes and imagination of its extraordinary protagonist. The film is as eccentric as its subject.

    The film – with flashbacks and flashforwards – is framed by Isadora (in blowsy, boozy middle age) dictating her reminiscences to Stokes (called Roger in the film) in a hotel room in Nice and finished with her ghastly death shortly afterwards.

    As she struts around dispensing tired epigrams, the film traces her life and her three lovers: stage designer Gordon Craig (James Fox); millionaire sewing machine heir Paris Singer (Jason Robards); and Russian poet Sergei Essenin (Ivan Tchenko).

    By each of the first two, Isadora has a child, but they die in an absurd car accident. Finally, in macabre mockery, so does she.

    While the film may be total confusion and a possible bore to those who prefer their movie narratives completely coherent and proceeding in a relatively straightforward manner from one scene to another, Isadora is certainly a connoisseur’s piece to be relished by those desirous of something excitingly original and stylish.

    And Vanessa Redgrave is positively stunning in the title role.

    Directed by Karel Reisz, Isadora impresses for both its visual brilliance and its thoroughly inspired performances from Robards and Fox as her lovers, and Bessie Love as Isadora’s mother.

    The French-English co-production was retitled for its American release as The Loves of Isadora.

    Isadora Duncan
    Vanessa Redgrave
    Roger
    John Fraser
    Gordon Craig
    James Fox
    Paris Singer
    Jason Robards
    Sergei Essenin
    Ivan Tchenko (Zvonimir Crnko)
    Bugatti
    Vladimir Leskovar
    Mary Desti
    Cynthia Harris
    Mrs Duncan
    Bessie Love
    Raymond Duncan
    Tony Vogel
    Elizabeth Duncan
    Libby Glenn
    Miss Chase
    Ronnie Gilbert
    Archer
    Wallas Eaton
    Bedford
    Nicholas Pennell
    Pim
    John Quentin
    Armand
    Christian Duvaleix

    Director
    Karel Reisz

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