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Wednesday, 21 April, 2010

Movie Week: Wiseman delves into the Paris Ballet

For more than four decades, Frederick Wiseman has used a lightweight 16mm camera and portable sound equipment to study human behavior in all its contradictory and unpredictable manifestations. While his films have portrayed  American life in all it’s various forms, and recently he’s turned to the cultural life of Paris. Wiseman’s latest documentary “La Danse” follows the Ballet of the Paris Opera. Earlier this week Wiseman was in Switzerland ahead of his film’s premiere at Nyon’s Visions du Réel festival. WRS’s Marc Menichini was there and asked Wiseman about the idea behind “La Danse”:

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