A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a hand-tinted postcard from 1890.
Costume
Those silk billows deserve their own billing.
Acting
Soko physically transforms; Lily-Rose Depp is chaos incarnate.
Director
Stéphanie Di Giusto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Soko trained for months to perform the physically devastating Serpentine Dance, which required manipulating 500+ yards of silk with hidden bamboo sticks while contorting her body.
Loïe Fuller actually held patents for her lighting innovations and was the first woman filmmaker—facts the film omits, perhaps to emphasize her erasure by history.
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