Karel Reisz's film of Melvin Bragg's telling screenplay explores and portrays the incredible life of Angela Isadora Duncan.
Vanessa Redgrave stars as the daughter of a bank fraudster from San Francisco, whose first step to sexual and artistic emancipation was to ceremonially burn her parents' marriage certificate.
We see in the film a woman who after a faltering start as an ambitious caterpillar is tranformed into glorious and irridescent butterfly who promotes and innovates a wholly new approach to dance and art in general.
Fortuitous meetings with Gordon Craig (James Fox) - an artistic soul mate; and Paris Singer (Jason Robards) a financial supporter and father of her second child.
A life less ordinary. You couldn't make it up !
Vanessa Redgrave stars as the daughter of a bank fraudster from San Francisco, whose first step to sexual and artistic emancipation was to ceremonially burn her parents' marriage certificate.
We see in the film a woman who after a faltering start as an ambitious caterpillar is tranformed into glorious and irridescent butterfly who promotes and innovates a wholly new approach to dance and art in general.
Fortuitous meetings with Gordon Craig (James Fox) - an artistic soul mate; and Paris Singer (Jason Robards) a financial supporter and father of her second child.
A life less ordinary. You couldn't make it up !