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Mao's Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Drama, Romance - 2009
Mao's Last Dancer
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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.
Director:
,
Bruce Beresford
Cast:
,
Kyle MacLachlan
,
Joan Chen
,
Jack Thompson
,
Bruce Greenwood
,
Amanda Schull
,
Chi Cao
,
Chengwu Guo
,
Wen Bin Huang
,
Shuangbao Wang
,
Camilla Vergotis

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Rated:
PG
Runtime:
117 min
Release date:
1 Oct 2009
Country:
AU
Languages:
English, Chinese
Budget:
$25,000,000
Revenue:
$23,914,731
Awards:
6 wins & 20 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Too often, though, the film plods along on the ground.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
27 Aug 2010
fresh:
Lovely and astounding, Mao's Last Dancer is a modern epic of art and ambition triumphing oppression.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
27 Aug 2010
fresh:
Australian director Bruce Beresford handles the culture-clash aspects of the story with a surprising lack of subtlety.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
3 Sep 2010
fresh:
Feel-good movie about a Chinese dancer presses all the right buttons.
– Peter Brunette,
Hollywood Reporter,
10 Sep 2010
fresh:
Bruce Beresford's biopic of Li Cunxin, the Chinese ballet dancer who defected while on a student visa in Houston in 1981, is sometimes the movie equivalent of Oscar Meyer cold cuts. But the dancing is pure caviar.
– Jonathan F. Richards,
Film.com,
21 Sep 2010
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