Review: Rudolf Nureyev biopic 'The White Crow' is a pale imitation of its subject
Talented and mercurial in equal measure, the dancer Rudolf Nureyev redefined what ballet could be. “The White Crow,” a new biopic from director Ralph Fiennes, focuses on the most important decision in the dancer’s early life: the moment when, at 23, he defected from the Soviet Union.
Playwright David Hare’s screenplay jumps between Paris and formative episodes in Nureyev’s upbringing in the U.S.S.R. Fiennes — who plays choreographer Alexander Pushkin, delivering his lines entirely in Russian — exerts an influence over Nureyev that is critical. Such flashbacks, however, fail to inform the decision to defect, instead merely detailing the obstacles that one might encounter in any biography of a Great Man.
Aside from their physical similarities and shared cockiness, Ivenko as Nureyev can’t quite sell his character’s most disagreeable attributes. One dinner scene, during which Nureyev lashes out at a waiter and his dining companion, feels more arbitrary than dramatic.
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