The Dying Swan (1917)
Directed by Yevgeni
Bauer this Russian silent film is based on the ballet of the same
name and stars Vera Karalli. A young mute woman wants to dance and a
broken heart motivates her to finally begin a career in ballet where
she dances The Dying Swan.
As this film only has
a 49 minute run time it is really hard to fully flesh out the themes
involved such as in The Red Shoes (1948) or Black Swan (2010) but
this is still a fairly good marriage of cinema and ballet. It takes a
little for all the story elements to come together but otherwise this
is a pretty good story with a new dream sequence. Mostly the film is
well made although obviously given it's early production date it's
execution is a little rough around the edges.
3/5
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