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Les enfants d'Isadora (2019)

84 min · Drama

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Directors

Damien Manivel

Cast

Agathe Bonitzer, Manon Carpentier, Marika Rizzi, Elsa Wolliaston, Julien Dieudonné

In present-day Paris, two artists approach Isadora Duncan’s “The Mother” through study and staging.

The story

Set in present-day Paris, the film follows a dancer studying Isadora Duncan’s solo “The Mother” and a choreographer staging it for a young autistic woman to perform. The dance was created after Duncan lost her two children in an accident in 1913.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Isadora Duncan loses her two children in a terrible accident in 1913. Out of this tragedy, she creates a solo dance, “The Mother.” Set in present-day Paris, the film follows, in turn, a dancer studying the solo, a choreographer staging it to be performed by a young autistic woman, and an elderly lady who attends the performance, deeply moved.

Genres

Drama

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