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Watch: Margot 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto ‘Tito’ Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet..
Plot: At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto ‘Tito’ Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.
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This film is an insult to two great artists.
MARGOT

The 2009 movie that I watched on television on New Year’s Eve entitled ‘Margot’ was an unbelievable insult to two of the world’s greatest artists. I managed to sit through it but was disgusted by the whole thing.

This is a cheap movie, done to make a quick buck, using cheap ideas, and actors who obviously had no knowledge of the personalities of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. The two Ronnies, whom I saw doing a skit in a nightclub many years ago had a much better understanding of their characters and Dr. Arias who was there at the time in his wheelchair was nothing like the character on the screen.

The casting for this movie was pathetic apart from the actor who played the part of Frederick Ashton. As for Eric Bruhn, he was hardly there, in spite of the fact that he played a huge part in Rudi’s life. What a wonderful story this could have been if the object had not been to dwell on the possible sexual relationship between Rudi and Margot. The producers of this film have really taken advantage of the fact that these great artists are dead and are thus unable to respond themselves to this trash.. It makes me feel ashamed that young ballet students will have seen this wicked interpretation of a wonderful person.

I found it difficult to watch the weak interpretation of the actor who played the part of Rudi. It was quite sickening. Rudi was a powerful being with so many changes to his personality and none of this came over. The actor’s face was completely wrong for a start as was his voice. It was as if those concerned had never actually seen Rudi, let alone studied his personality and worked hard on trying to resemble him in some way. Margot was not the Margot I knew, who was bubbly and friendly with everyone. Where was her lovely laugh? This actor had completely the wrong shaped face to start with.

As for the story line, it was taken from Meredith Daneman’s book which went into great detail about Rudi and Margot’s personal life and the author went overboard with intimate details of Margot’s body. Completely tasteless! There was nothing there about Margot’s exciting professional life. It was all based on a sexual affair for the mere purpose of shocking, causing a stir and saying, ‘Aren’t I brave?” The movie is a write-off. Burn it!

Beyond the fantasy
“Margot” offers a vignette of ballerina Margot Fonteyn’s life, the halcyon period of the sixties when her dancing career was revitalised by Rudolph Nureyev, his inspiration renewing her vigour and even making her look younger. This BBC film exaggerates, perhaps, the extent of that special relationship which was rumoured to have briefly gone beyond simply a dancing partnership, but this really does not matter.

The dramatic story of a famous ballet dancer married to a Panamanian revolutionary, her muse a glamorous Russian dancing defector, is great stuff for a film. And despite some slightly tedious repetitions of stylised interviews with Fonteyn as ‘information fillers’ the drama is convincing. I loved the combinations of dance performance with the personal story, cleverly realised so that the brilliant acting of Anne-Marie Duff could be seen in ballet scenes requiring drama rather than dance, and a body double seen from the back for the dance sequences. The dance elements were very well structured.

Margot’s personal agonies, especially with her marriage to a consistently unfaithful husband who depended on her earnings to fund his revolutionary activities, are wonderfully realised through Duff’s acting. And, as Margot frequently had to do in real life, she disguised the tragedies in her personal life putting on a front hiding the realities. Just when Margot is about to divorce Tito, he is shot and her feelings are tragically compromised.

I lived through this story, I saw Margot Fonteyn dance with Nureyev in the sixties and into the seventies. I KNOW how marvellous she was and how great their partnership. I remember the newspaper headlines when Tito Arias was shot. The bones of the story are dramatic enough. This film puts meat on them and Anne-Marie Duff’s performance is fabulous. She is matched by Huisman as Nureyev, and Derek Jacobi produces a star turn as Frederick Ashton right down to dropping his fag ash on dancers, and his over-the-top theatricality. Lindsay Duncan is lovely as Madame – Ninette de Valois – but she could have been even more autocratic as de Valois was known for her strictures and perfectionism and ensuring her dancers observe her rules. An early scene when Margot is dismayed to find she has been made a “Guest Artiste” without her knowledge is a remarkable cameo piece.

All in all, this film is well worth watching, thoroughly absorbing, and enhanced by wonderful acting. Authentic details such as Margot’s fur coats, Nureyev’s woolly hats, Ashton’s gestures with cigarettes, all add to the feel of the film. Buy the DVD, you won’t regret it.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 25 min (85 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Biography, Drama
Director Otto Bathurst
Writer Amanda Coe, Meredith Daneman
Actors Anne-Marie Duff, Penelope Wilton, Con O’Neill
Country United Kingdom
Awards 1 nomination
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Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1
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