Mao's Last Dancer (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 29, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kyle MacLachlan, Bruce Greenwood, Wang Shuangbao, Joan Chen & Chi Cao | |
Directed by | Bruce Beresford | |
Screenwriting by | Jan Sardi | |
Composition by | Christopher Gordon | |
Photography by | Simon Cardwell | |
Director of Photography: | Peter James |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B+ --
Lovely and astounding, Mao's Last Dancer is a modern epic of art and ambition triumphing oppression.
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Detroit News
Too often, though, the film plods along on the ground.
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Christian Science Monitor
Powerfully compelling and passionate, MAO'S LAST DANCER is a celebration of the human spirit, aiming for the heart and hitting it every time.
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Behind The Lens
Rating: 3.5/5 --
a sweeping story that has many ups and downs, with some pretty noticeable changes in tone and pace
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7M Pictures
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Australian director Bruce Beresford handles the culture-clash aspects of the story with a surprising lack of subtlety.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rating: 3.5 --
Missteps prevent ballet drama from reaching great heights.
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sbs.com.au
Bruce Beresford's biopic of Li Cunxin, the Chinese ballet dancer who defected while on a student visa in Houston in 1981, is sometimes the movie equivalent of Oscar Meyer cold cuts. But the dancing is pure caviar.
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Film.com
Product Description:
The true story of Li Cunxin and his journey from rural China to the bright lights of ballet stardom is brought to the screen in this biographical drama from director Bruce Beresford. In 1972, 11-year-old Li Cunxin (Huang Wenbin) is living with his parents, Niang (Joan Chen) and Dia (Wang Shuangbao), and six siblings while attending a tumbledown school in Shandog province. Li's life changes when representatives of Madame Mao's Beijing Dance Academy visit his school, and he is one of several students believed to have promise as a dancer. While life at the school is difficult for Li and many of the instructors are harsh and unforgiving, Chan (Zhang Su) takes the boy under his wing and grooms him into one of the school's star pupils. In 1981, Li (now played by Chi Cao) is chosen to travel to the United States as part of a student exchange with the Houston Ballet Company. Under the tutelage of Ben Stevenson (Bruce Greenwood), the company's director, Li impresses his peers and is given a key role in a televised production of Die Fledermaus; despite an attack of stage fright, Li's performance is a triumph. As Li came to love life in the United States, he also falls for an attractive young dancer, Elizabeth (Amanda Schull), and when his time in America draws to a close, he makes the decision to leave his old life behind and pursue a life of personal and creative freedom in America. Also starring Kyle MacLachlan and Camilla Vergotis, MAO'S LAST DANCER received its world premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.