Company, The
Rating = B
If this movie was not about modern dance
(an art form I particularly enjoy), I might not have given it as high a rating
as I have. There is almost no plot. There are no main characters; even Neve
Campbell, whose project this movie was, is more or less just another dancer in
the company. However, many of the dance scenes (especially the opening number
with lots of long ribbons) are pretty, and the dance is filmed relatively
straight (not constant cutting as in Chicago to generate artificial
excitement). I also felt I was getting an inside look at the less-than-pretty
operation of a dance company and the people in it, especially the dancers who
mostly keep working hard and accept the life's trials and successes as they
come because it lets them continue to work at their art.
[2004-02-20]