- Release Date:
- 1st October 2009
- Details:
- 117 mins, PG, Drama, Foreign, Music, Historical
- Starring:
- Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan
- Directed by:
- Bruce Beresford
- Distributor:
- Roadshow Films
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
Synopsis
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
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1 Comment
Making this movie was a very ambitious project given the subject matter... I think they made a nice movie but I really did prefer the book which was absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, I think they trivialised the terrible times during the communist era. Having said that, my mother saw the movie...