Isadora

This bloated pseudobiography (originally 177 minutes, later cut to 128 minutes) offers an expensive production and a nitwit story that would have offended the worst producer of B films at Monogram or Mascot. Wholly miscast is Redgrave as Isadora Duncan, the celebrated interpretive dancer, sexual vamp, and all-around eccentric. The film opens with Redgrave at age 49 dictating her unreliable memoirs, recounting her adolescent awe of ancient Greek tribal dancing, her music hall period as "Peppy Dora," her tempestuous love affair with artist Gordon Craig (Fox), marriage to sewing machine magnate Paris Singer (Robards), and marriage to lunatic Russian poet Sergei Esseni...