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The Company

2003

Robert Altman

Neve Campbell, James Franco, Malcolm McDowell, Barbara Robertson ...

5.5

1,089

Musical. Drama With the complete cooperation of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, director Robert Altman follows the stories of the dancers, whose professional and personal lives grow impossibly close, as they cope with the demands of a life in the ballet. Neve Campbell plays a gifted but conflicted company member on the verge of becoming a principal dancer at a fictional Chicago troupe, with Malcolm McDowell the company‘s co–founder and artistic ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Anna Kisselgoff The New York Times	"A completely new kind of film"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Altman’s latest masterpiece is a picture worth a thousand movements (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is watchable in a faintly absurd sort of way (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Altman creates a world of movement, rhythm, poise and colour as lovely, muscular and delicate as a Degas painting"	POS
United States	Nell Minow Common Sense Media	"The result is intimate and moving, with dance numbers that are thrillingly filmed and backstage stories that are quietly observed"	POS

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