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The King Is Dancing
Why this pick
Corbiau again stages music as power, spectacle and personal obsession, in lavish courtly spaces and with the same heightened historical sensuality.
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MOVIE1994 1h 51m FRA
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The prologue begins with Carlo Broschi, the famous castrato Farinelli, reminiscing about his childhood as a singer in the church choir. A newly castrated boy runs in and warns Carlo that his voice will result in death, then kills himself. Carlo is traumatized and refuses to sing a composition by his older brother Riccardo for his voice teacher, Nicola Porpora. He cries and runs to his father, who comforts him, but extracts a promise that he will never refuse his voice to his brother again.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Stefano Dionisi
Carlo Broschi (Farinelli)
Enrico Lo Verso
Riccardo Broschi
Elsa Zylberstein
Alexandra
Jeroen Krabbé
George Frideric Handel