Swan Song

Date:: 8 Jun 2024, 19:00–20:40

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Place:: Cinema

Age restrictions: 18+

2023, Chelsea McMullan

Canada
99 minutes, English with Russian subtitles

Documentary

An unexpected perspective on the most symbolically intense ballet. Screening as part of Beat Film Festival 2024.

For every Russian, Swan Lake associates with changes. Its production brings change not only to the audience: the Canadian and world ballet star Karen Kain is staging her own version of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece, bidding farewell to theatre after half a century.

Shot from Swan Song, 2023

The agony and ecstasy of ballet is blisteringly captured in this stunning documentary.

— Eric Marchen, Untitled Movie Podcast

Swan Song looks behind the scenes of the National Ballet of Canada, capturing every detail: the conflict between the director and prima, the pandemic pause, nervous breakdowns, general fatigue... In comparison with this film, the much-praised in its time Black Swan seems quite harmless.

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