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A.O. Scott, New York Times: One of the finest dance films ever made, but there's more to it than that. Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Wiseman's films are as much living organisms as they are subjective portraits. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: A portrait of one of the world's great companies by one of the world's great verite documentarians. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Captures the fleeting beauty of ballet in dozens of miniature portraits, each quietly soaring. This movie just goes up there and stays there, and it's magical. Read more
Sam Adams, AV Club: At a shade over two and a half hours, La Danse is compact by Wiseman's standards, and it feels much shorter, gracefully flowing from ballerinas en pointe to construction workers patching cracks in the ceiling. Read more
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: It is an insider's look at the ballet, but one that only an insider will get the most out of. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A unique kind of magic: a documentary about the work in art that is itself a work of art. Read more
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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A rapturous (if occasionally disorienting) dance film precisely choreographed with seeming artlessness. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Bodies in motion tend to remain in motion, but almost never with the heart-stirring beauty and grace on view in Frederick Wiseman's exceptional portrait of the Paris Opera Ballet, La Danse. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: It's a joyous experience to see an institution in full flower-- to see not dereliction and disorder but the many forms of striving and virtue. Read more
John R. Killacky, San Francisco Chronicle: La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, Frederick Wiseman's astoundingly beautiful documentary, has sumptuous delights to satisfy every balletomane. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: What's missing is a sense of who the dancers are as people and it makes La Danse feel like it has missed some crucial steps. Read more
David Jenkins, Time Out: La Danse is an example of cinema at its most musical, an awe-inspiring celebration of body, mind and movement. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Offers a portrait of suppleness and agility -- not just that of the dancers' bodies, but also of the august institution of the title. Read more