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Fuete (1986)
Fouette (1986)
Maybe the spelling mistake in the title and the wrong year had something to do to make this film one of the most forgotten of cinema history. It told a ballerina story in the highly demanding world of Soviet Russia Classic Ballet. We followed a day in the life of this artist, from her depressing wake up, and first rehearsal session in her gloomy apartment settled in a more gloomy Moscow district, to the sadistic rehearsal in a Bolshoi-like theater. I don't know how this disregarded jewel came to the small suburb movie theater near my home. I remember I saw it in the late 80's or first 90's. My country, El Salvador, was then at the end of a bloody civil war. It was the first soviet film I ever seen.
Le maître de musique (1988)
A disregarded jewel
Yes, this is a movie for opera lovers. Yes, maybe other persons will be bored. But, anyway, IT IS A REAL JEWEL. Excellent music, lovely photographed scenes, charming performances... From the beginning to the end, this film deserves an undoubted adjective: BEAUTIFUL. José Van Dam is an excellent bass-baritone and one of the wold's most famous singer. Although his students (Anne Roussel as Sophie Maurier and Philippe Volter as Jean Nilson) had small timing faults during their performance in Sempre libera, whose voices were doubled by Dinah Bryant, soprano, and Jerome Pruett, tenor, their acting are so tender that you can forgive these minor troubles. The last Dallayrac scene is delicate, sublime and superb. A Gerard Corbiau masterpiece, indeed. I haven't seen Pelle, the conqueror yet, but it should be something, because Pelle defeated Le maitre de musique and Almodovar's masterpiece: Womans in the verge of a nervous breakdown and won the Oscar for a foreing language movie in 1989.