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The White Crow

Oleg Ivenko (Actor), Adèle Exarchopoulos (Actor) Rated:
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4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 779 ratings
IMDb6.6/10.0
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Genre Drama, Documentary/Biography
Format NTSC
Contributor Adèle Exarchopoulos, Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann
Language English
Runtime 2 hours and 7 minutes
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The incredible true story of legendary ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev is brought vividly to life by Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes and Academy Award nominated screenwriter David Hare. From Nureyev's poverty-stricken childhood in the Soviet city of Ufa, to his blossoming career as a dancer in Leningrad, to his nail-biting defection to the West at the height of the Cold War, The White Crow is a gripping and revelatory look at a unique artist who transformed the world of ballet forever.

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.72 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ SMD D55859D
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Ralph Fiennes
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 7 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ July 30, 2019
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Oleg Ivenko, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Classics
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07TPYX1SX
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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Robert, NYC
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent movie
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024
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Extremely well done movie with excellent cast
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Green Wave
5.0 out of 5 stars An Uplifting Surprise
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2020
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As of last night, all I knew about “The White Crow” was that it was about 23-year-old Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev’s 1961 defection to the West in a Paris airport; I hadn’t read any reviews or talked to anybody about it. Since I’d heard very little about the film—it seemed to have sunk with barely a ripple after briefly popping to the surface last spring--I wasn’t expecting much. But I’d recently read the superb biography of Nureyev by Julie Kavanagh and I wasn’t doing anything, so I thought I’ll give it a try. I could always quit on it and just be out the rental cost.
Without really thinking about it, I assumed Nureyev would be played by Benedict Cumberbatch or some such, and that the other central character, Clara Saint, the 20-year-old daughter of a wealthy Chilean painter living in Paris who befriended Nureyev and helped engineer his defection, would be played by, say, Reese Witherspoon. But no. It turned out that the 5’8”, rather short, Nureyev was portrayed by the 5’8”, rather short, and also 23, ballet company soloist Oleg Ivenko, same ethnicity, who looks remarkably like Nureyev did at that age; and that Saint was played by the looks-twenty French actress Adéle Exarchopoulos, who is the spitting image of pictures of the real Saint at that time. More, when a scene was in Russia, they spoke subtitled Russian, and when it was in France, they spoke subtitled Russian and French. And I’ll be darned, it turned out that dancer Ivenko, who had never acted before, can act up a storm. All to say, I believed this film—I wasn’t sitting there thinking “Hey, they’re only shooting Benedict’s dance scenes from the waist up, although I have to give it to her, Reese is doing great with the French.”
Another uplifting surprise, what a mature, artful, insightful, and thought-provoking screenplay by major league playwright and screenwriter Sir David Hare, which included on-the-money flashbacks to Nureyev’s very meager beginnings in the far-distant provinces. Plus, “The White Crow” turned out to be most sensitively directed by Ralph Fiennes (who also is superb playing Nureyev’s beleaguered dance teacher Alexander Pushkin), and the cinematography of Mike Eley was top rank. Great editing and pacing. Right down the line, the supporting actors were, a big point here, believable: when they were Russian, they were Russian; I wasn’t going, “I think Jonah Hill has lost some weight.” Increasingly as the film went along, I got caught up with the story; no quitting on this one.
I checked out the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes and it said, "‘The White Crow’ lacks the nimble grace of its subject, but as a reasonably diverting primer on a pivotal period in the life of a brilliant artist, it just about sticks the landing."  The Metacritic site, which sums up published reviews, says “The White Crow” received "mixed or average reviews." I can only offer that those conclusions don’t match up with my experience with this film: I thought it stuck the landing without so much as a quiver, and my review is a highly respectful rave.
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Justin Stoke
4.0 out of 5 stars I watched it in both Russian and with subtitles
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2019
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I enjoyed the movie and to see old Russia was nice and the acting was good. I don't know if the film holds to the truth or not but it was a well made film and complicated. If you watch closely you can see so much more in the paintings and memories. A few things I wish they had done is explain what the "White Crow"(белая ворона) means in Russian. It is someone who does not fit in the norm. And the Russian spoken was more modern then 1961.To be honest the film made me wish for the old Russia in some ways where so much as so simple.
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Aleksei Valentín
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully made, beautiful portrait of an artist
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2019
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First, if you're not a Russian speaker, turn on closed captioning. That will help with subtitling and keeping pace with dialogue, since many viewers are dissatisfied with that. This is not a film for English audiences, and having captions will make it easier to keep up.

Second, and most importantly, this is a beautifully made piece of cinema that shows a portrait of an artist and legend. Ivenko is a subtle and passionate actor, and he embodies Nureyev in a way that I think only possible for a ballet dancer to do. The contrast between the flashbacks to Soviet Russia during the 30s and 40s and the Kodachrome-quality of France is so evocative and stark. It makes the stakes right away. So many of the performances are subtle, and they rely on knowing about Soviet politics and the life of Nureyev himself. This is a film made of love for Nureyev and what his defection meant for ballet -- but more importantly, what it meant for himself. And what it meant was, ultimately, a chance to be an artist, to tell stories with dance, to be a free and complete person without the restrictions of the Soviet system in the 60s. He is not a likable person, but frankly, he wasn't. This film, however, works to make him comprehensible, and to show the strain under which he worked and why he was willing to make his leap to freedom in the Paris airport. It's a gorgeous piece of cinema, and vastly underappreciated.

Are there flaws? Certainly. The sexual element with Pushkin's wife felt uncomfortable, but some of that is Rudi's perspective. He did not feel supported. He felt alienated from people who were supposed to care for him and nurture him. And that comes through. The way he's shown as erratic and troubled, those are true, but it felt as if they were somehow an excuse for his behaviour rather than a consequence of the system he was struggling against. But the portrait of the artist comes through.

It's a shame that this film is so badly rated. It's a true gem, and a piece of art that delves into what made one of the defining ballet dancers of the 20th century. I encourage people to read Kavanaugh's biography of Nureyev, as well as his 1960s autobiography, and return to it, with captions on, and try to experience it again through the lens of what he was trying to escape, and what he saw that he had to gain. And to remember what it cost him to make that dash for freedom, because it gave us ballet as we know it today.
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mila
1.0 out of 5 stars Do NOT buy this DVD
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024
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I purchased this Sony Classic DVD twice. Printed in the US. Zone 1. The first time I didn't watch it right the way. But when I found the time to watch the disk it would not play at all. Reason: incompatible. The window to return the dvd was no longer available.
The second time, I bought it and tried to play the disk as soon as it arrived. The same message on the player: disk incompatible. However, NO indication about that particular Sony Classic DVD would be incompatible in the US. I returned the disk immediately!
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PSK
3.0 out of 5 stars A little disappointed
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2022
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I was expecting this to be spectacular but was just meh but still good. It seems a bit disjointed and was hard to determine the difference between flashbacks of the adult Nureyev from present day. There was no real introduction to his friendship between Nureyev and Teja Krempke. It was just there and for a very short amount of time.
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3.0 out of 5 stars pas clair
Reviewed in France on March 15, 2024
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ben, moyennement contente car j'avais pris garde que le film serait sous-titré en français et finalement, il ne l'est pas
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Stephen B. Wolf, M.D.
5.0 out of 5 stars White Crow vs. Black Swan
Reviewed in Mexico on August 7, 2020
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The White Crow is an impressive film that makes a great companion for as well as contrast to The Black Swan!!!
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Thérèse Paquet
5.0 out of 5 stars Biographie très près du réel. Interprétation de classe. Réalisation sobre et de belle qualité.
Reviewed in Canada on October 6, 2019
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NEREA BARANDA
1.0 out of 5 stars Su vida
Reviewed in Spain on November 19, 2019
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Old Readerhand
5.0 out of 5 stars Ein sechster Stern wäre durchaus angemessen
Reviewed in Germany on February 21, 2020
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"The White Crow" hätte durchaus einen sechsten Stern verdient, aber das ist hier ja nicht vorgesehen. Der Film erzählt die Geschichte Rudolf Nurejews - von seiner Geburt in der Transsib bis zu seinem Entschluss, im Westen zu bleiben, den der damals 23-jährige Tänzer des Leningrader Kirov-Balletts 1961 gegen Ende eines Gastspiel-Aufenthaltes in Paris traf. Sicher ist dieser Film für Freunde des Balletts von Interesse, weil Nurejew einer der großen Stars dieser Kunstsparte gewesen ist. Ich meine aber, dass die Bedeutung dieses Filmes weit darüber hinaus geht. Im Kern handelt er von Freiheit und Individualismus, von deren Unterdrückung und/oder Entfaltung. Weil diese Kernfrage am Beispiel Nurejews auf herausragende Weise beleuchtet wird, ist es ein großer Film, wie es ihn vielleicht nur alle zehn Jahre gibt. Dazu kommt ein Drehbuch, das die Geschichte spannend und unterhaltsam erzählt, und eine geradezu atemberaubende atmosphärische Dichte bei der Beschreibung des Lebens in der Sowjetunion und in Paris zur damaligen Zeit. Wer sich dafür interessiert, in diese vergangene Zeit "einzutauchen" und sie damit wirklich zu verstehen, dem sei dieser Film nachdrücklich empfohlen. Viele großartige Schauspieler/-innen. Ralph Fiennes, der Regie führte und auch ausführender Produzent war, spielt Nurejews Leningrader Ballett-Lehrmeister - einfach grandios.
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