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# Tony Palmer's Film About Margot [DVD] [2008] [NTSC]

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Unforgettable  Documentary
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2010*

This very entertaining and sometimes exciting documentary is more than 160 minutes in length. I've watched it 3 times -and it still succeeds in being completely gripping. The viewer feels he is getting close to what made Margot Fonteyn such a captivating ballerina and personality. Anyone interested in dance will probably be enthralled by this film.She had a thrilling career, but there was apparently a shadow to Fonteyn's marriage and private life, which makes the biography of this marvellous dancer if anything even more compelling. In her art and also in her personal life Fonteyn appears to have been, on the evidence presented here, a woman of astonishing determination.  In telling her story, this perceptive film examines Fonteyn's significant relationships with, amongst others, her Mother (known as "B.Q.", Black Queen), Constant Lambert, Rudolf Nureyev, and her husband Tito Arias. Fonteyn's friends, relations, and colleagues are interviewed, but (with one spectacular exception) this documentary avoids suggestions based  on speculation, or hearsay. There are numerous illustrations of Fonteyn's magical qualities as a dancer found in archive film (of varying quality), as well as footage of Fonteyn off-stage which conveys a sense of her life-enhancing personality. There is very effective use of Prokoviev's music for "Romeo & Juliet" during the documentary, colouring the more dramatic aspects of Fonteyn's life.  Tony Palmer presents the  facts relating to the end of Fonteyn's life in a way that is troubling, and difficult to put out of mind. The end of this story could be described as heartbreaking. The final resting place of Dame Margot Fonteyn, who gave the world such grace and joy, should surely be something more than it is at present.  This biographical documentary is one of the best of its kind.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Storytelling at its best
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 September 2012*

Superb production values ensure this biography of England's most famous ballerina doesn't disappoint.Archived and contemporary interviews with the big names of the Royal Ballet seamlessly progress the narrative whilst footage of Fonteyn and her dancing partners in rehearsal and performance throughout her professional career bear witness to the development of ballet from the 1930s to the 1980s. For the male ballet dancer it's also a useful reminder that Nureyev really did make a difference and the ballerina's prop would become an equal partner.Nureyev and Fonteyn became big box office bed blockers at the Royal Ballet and the bitterness of great dancers whose opportunities were denied reminds us that blinding light creates deep shadows.Fonteyn changed her nose and voice as well as her name. As a ballerina she controlled her body superbly but she hardly controlled her life and her love life, not at all. Two youthful abortions, left at the alter by a drunken unfaithful seducer, married to a philandering neglectful crook and an affair with a bisexual man half her age. She had rotten taste in men. Yet when her husband was paralysed from the neck down after being shot by a husband he cuckolded, Fonteyn took control of someone for the first time in her life and revelled in it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Margot
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 March 2014*

Interesting but very sad.  I had read her biography so knew the story but one felt all the time that she was being used and the ROH should definitely not have made her come to the Benefit when she was a dying woman.  Some lovely dance extracts.

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