Thirty dancers from hip-hop, break, vogue, and other non-traditional genres descend on Paris’s legendary Opéra Bastille to reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes. Intense, mesmerising, energetic and a powerful ode to life and art – this is an inspiring documentary, unmissable.
Director: Philippe Béziat | Cast: Clément Cogitore, Bintou Dembélé, Leonardo García Alarcón, Jack Lang
France | 2020 | 108 mins | Print source: IFCinéma
French with English subtitles
Nominated, Best Documentary Film, César Awards (2022)
“Much more than a ‘making of’ this emerges an invigorating political work about artistic endeavour and diversity.” L’Obs
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