My Review- The White Crow. Rating 6/10
We watched the 2008 film The Reader last night which started Ralph Feinnes playing a German but speaking English and a David Hare screenplay directed brilliantly by Stephen Daldry . What a pity the same director didn't direct White Crow. Ralph Feinnes is a fine actor but this his 3rd directing effort in my opinion falls short the fast forward present and fast rewind flashback erratic editing is confusing and unnecessary.
David Hare and Julie Kavanagh responsible for the Screenplay of White Crow , have adapted the story from an extract of her book Nureyev The Life and I think they miss the most interesting part of Nureyev's story .
This is a movie over 2 hours long and focuses mainly on Nureyev's defection which has been brilliantly documented in the BBC film Dance to Freedom. The actual defection in 1961 at the Le Bourget airport in Paris, after KGB officers tell him he is being sent back to Moscow to perform at a Kremlin gala is worthy of a thrilling Alfred Hitchcock style but in this movie there's no tension or build up , it just happens then his free and the titles appear.
What happened next is much more interesting and if some of the padding had been edited out perhaps and replaced by explaining the phenomenon that Nureyev was and his contribution to the world of dance it would have been a better film.
Oleg Ivenko , who plays Rudolph Nureyev is quite good in the role but I thought didn't quite capture Nureyev 's fire and ice Tatar personality, probably the directors fault but he looks great and dances well but not like Nureyev, which would be impossible.
I was looking forward to this film and ignoring the luke warm reviews but sadly have to agree with the majority this time.
It could have been much better , it's more a BBC Tele Movie than a Cinema Movie I think Ralph Feinnes should stick to acting .
Rudolph Nureyev had a much more interesting and notorious life after the defection his relationship with Danish ballet star and inspiration Erik Bruhn and of course The Nureyev and Margo Fonteyn Years make me hope someday someone will make a film worthy of arguably the Greatest Male Ballet Star of the 20th Century.
My suggestion is wait for the new David Morris Documentary " Nureyev "
We watched the 2008 film The Reader last night which started Ralph Feinnes playing a German but speaking English and a David Hare screenplay directed brilliantly by Stephen Daldry . What a pity the same director didn't direct White Crow. Ralph Feinnes is a fine actor but this his 3rd directing effort in my opinion falls short the fast forward present and fast rewind flashback erratic editing is confusing and unnecessary.
David Hare and Julie Kavanagh responsible for the Screenplay of White Crow , have adapted the story from an extract of her book Nureyev The Life and I think they miss the most interesting part of Nureyev's story .
This is a movie over 2 hours long and focuses mainly on Nureyev's defection which has been brilliantly documented in the BBC film Dance to Freedom. The actual defection in 1961 at the Le Bourget airport in Paris, after KGB officers tell him he is being sent back to Moscow to perform at a Kremlin gala is worthy of a thrilling Alfred Hitchcock style but in this movie there's no tension or build up , it just happens then his free and the titles appear.
What happened next is much more interesting and if some of the padding had been edited out perhaps and replaced by explaining the phenomenon that Nureyev was and his contribution to the world of dance it would have been a better film.
Oleg Ivenko , who plays Rudolph Nureyev is quite good in the role but I thought didn't quite capture Nureyev 's fire and ice Tatar personality, probably the directors fault but he looks great and dances well but not like Nureyev, which would be impossible.
I was looking forward to this film and ignoring the luke warm reviews but sadly have to agree with the majority this time.
It could have been much better , it's more a BBC Tele Movie than a Cinema Movie I think Ralph Feinnes should stick to acting .
Rudolph Nureyev had a much more interesting and notorious life after the defection his relationship with Danish ballet star and inspiration Erik Bruhn and of course The Nureyev and Margo Fonteyn Years make me hope someday someone will make a film worthy of arguably the Greatest Male Ballet Star of the 20th Century.
My suggestion is wait for the new David Morris Documentary " Nureyev "