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BOLÉRO

• Director: Anne Fontaine
• FRANCE / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 120’ / French; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Anne Fontaine, Claire Barré
• Director of Photography: Christophe Beaucarne
• Editing: Thibaut Damade
• Music: Bruno Coulais
• Cast: Doria Tillier,Emmanuelle Devos,Jeanne Balibar,Raphaël Personnaz,Vincent Perez
• Producer: Philippe Carcassonne, David Gauquié, Julien Deris, Jean-Louis Livi
• Production Co.: Ciné-@, Cinéfrance Studios, F comme Film
• World Sales: SND International

It is claimed that once every 15 minutes, someone on earth plays Maurice Ravel’s Boléro.

Paris, the Roaring Twenties. Choreographer Ida Rubinstein chooses Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. She wants something bold, something sensual, ‘Carnal! Bewitching! Erotic!’ Already well-known and established as France’s foremost living composer, Ravel finds himself incapable of writing anything. Reliving his memories, facing his old loves and failures, close friendships, military service during the First World War, the composer will give birth to his greatest success ever: the Boléro. Anne Fontaine’s passionate and intelligent biopic of the composer is as colourful as her 2019 biopic on the fashion designer Coco avant Chanel.

This film is screened with the kind contribution of Institut Français.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.