It is also known as The Loves of Isadora.Īlso in the cast are Ivan Tchenko, John Fraser, Bessie Love, Cynthia Harris, Libby Glenn, Tony Vogel, Wallas Eaton, John Quentin, Nicholas Pennell, Ronnie Gilbert, Margaret Courtenay, Arthur White, John Warner, John Brandon, Ina De La Haye, Lucinda Chambers, Alan Gifford, David Healy, Zuleika Dobson, Noel Davies, Mark Dignam, Roy Stephens and Richard Marner. The cut US version runs 131 minutes, with the director’s cut at 153 minutes. The screenplay is based on two books: My Life by Isadora Duncan and Isadora Duncan, An Intimate Portrait by Sewell Stokes ![]() The ending as Isadora is killed when her headscarf is trapped in a car’s wheels is quite heartbreaking.Īnd the lavish period reconstruction, beautifully photographed by Larry Pizer in gorgeous Eastmancolor, ravishes the eye. ![]() It helps that there is a big emotional climax. Redgrave won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival and was also Golden Globe nominated for Best Actress – Drama.īut James Fox as Isadora’s Berlin lover Gordon Craig and Jason Robards Jr as Isadora’s industrialist husband Paris Singer are less persuasive than Redgrave, and, unusually, some of the support acting is surprisingly shoddy.Īlthough the screenplay by the formidable trio of Melvyn Bragg (adaptation and screenplay), Clive Exton (screenplay) and Margaret Drabble (additional dialogue) needs to be much tighter and sharper, the film holds the attention for its intelligence and spiritedness during its entire long running time of 168 minutes. ![]() Isadora *** (1968, Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6635ĭirector Karel Reisz’s great-looking 1968 British biopic of the 1920s ‘modern’ dancer Isadora Duncan is flawed but fascinating.Įven if she herself is no dancer, Vanessa Redgrave impresses in an Oscar-nominated performance that exactly captures Isadora’s capricious free spirit.
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