Imagine an obsessive love between a shy, sheltered Midwestern teenager and a married, middle-aged man of the world whose vivacious fifth wife has recently been cruelly crippled by polio. The stuff of overheated melodrama, with a nasty hint of
Lolita-ism? Perhaps. But it's also the story of ballerina Suzanne Farrell, one of the great classical dancers of our time (she retired in 1988, age 43), and the late George Balanchine, the choreographer whose vision of a uniquely American style of dancing -- equal parts Russian classicism
and jazz-inflected brashness, delivered with daredevil speed and abandon -- changed the shape of 20th-century ballet. Anne Belle and ...
Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
115 mins