A film by Frederick Wiseman following the ins and outs of 7 ballets by the Paris Opera Ballet.
Direction
Wiseman's invisible hand — no interviews, no narration, pure observation.
Cinematography
Rehearsal rooms as sacred spaces, bodies as architecture.
Director
Frederick Wiseman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wiseman filmed for 7 weeks during the 2008 season, capturing the institution's anxieties about aging leadership and economic precarity without ever explicitly mentioning them.
The Palais Garnier building itself is treated as a character — its 19th-century opulence increasingly absurd against the dancers' brutal physical reality.
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