ROma, 25 needle. (askanews) – “It never passes more than a quarter of an hour without someone placing Ravel’s bolero in some part of the world“. With this phrase the film by Anne Fontaine” Bolero “ends, in Italian cinemas from August 28th. The director, former author of the film biography” Coco Avant Chanel “, decided to tell how the exceptional, obsessive, masterful score was born and above all to reveal something more on its author, Maurice Ravel.
The film is set in 1928, in the Paris of the roaring years, In which the dancer Ida Rubinstein commissioned the music for his next ballet in Ravel. He is over 50 years old, he is a shy character, in crisis of inspiration, on which the failures of the beginning still weigh, the enrollment during the Great War, and is tormented by the impossible love for his muse Misia Sert.
That commission tests him, has the reason for the bolero within himself: he feels it in the noise of a factory, in the ticking of his alarm clock, in the sound of the rain. And when he finally succeeds in writing it and the ballet of Ida Rubenstein is staged He is disappointed by the sensual dance that accompanies his work but the public goes crazy for his music.
The director reconstructed the life of the composer played by Raphael Personnaz Using real and imaginary elements, underlining the contrast between the sobriety and composure of the author and the impetuosity and sensuality of the work that made it famous. “We do not protect ourselves from the Bolero. – said Anne Fontaine – you are forced to enter it, even if you don’t feel like it. It is like a spell that is launched, there is almost a voodoo spell in the Bolero”.
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