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Crazy Horse Review

  • Release Date: Jan 18, 2012
  • Runtime: 2 hr. 14 min.
  • Genres: Documentary
  • Director:Frederick Wiseman

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4.0

Dave White Profile

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4.0

Grae Drake Profile

Bewitching bottoms. Read full review

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  • 4.0
    72

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    Metascore®
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  • 50

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    Variety

    What's generally missing here though is a sense of the creative process; rather than sweat-and-tears rehearsals breaking the dances into individual movements, the numbers are largely shown nearly complete. Consequently, there's little sense of the discipline involved, or the struggle for perfection that makes dance documentaries so engrossing.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    If Frederick Wiseman's involving new documentary Crazy Horse is any indication, that old rule about how you get to Carnegie Hall - "practice, practice, practice" - applies equally well to that Parisian temple of self-described "nude chic" known to its intimates simply as "Le Crazy."

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy

    Most disappointingly, the dancers never get their close-ups; whether by choice or by some enforced arrangement, Wiseman doesn't approach the gorgeous women to give them the chance to tell their side of what it's like to work at the Crazy Horse.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    The Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris is famous for its "erotic chic" revues, but I found nothing either erotic or chic in this reduction of body parts to geometrical displays.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    Mr. Wiseman's particular genius has always been to convey, through judicious editing and dogged filming, the tedium, busyness and quiet intensity of group labor.

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  • 91

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Completing his wonderful French cultural trilogy that also includes portraits of the Comédie-Fran¸aise and the Paris Opera Ballet, indefatigable documentarian Frederick Wiseman freely, unobtrusively prowls the joint to create a movie that respects the serious work involved in simulating the sensations of pleasure.

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5

the original by godstevies
Tasteful, delectable, and scrumptious.

4

Crazy Horse review by mcatmd
remarkable; would that we could enjoy such erotic fun & art in our cities!

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