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Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan

2016

Linda Saffire, Adam Schlesinger

Documentary, Self: Wendy Whelan

7.0

35

Documentary Documentary on the great American Ballerina Wendy Whelan, who was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and is a guest artist with The Royal Ballet and the Kirov Ballet and has performed all over the

	Media	Author	Review
		Sheri Linden Los Angeles Times	"An intimate and engaging chronicle (...) It shows her creating new challenges for herself, turning the terrifying prospect of irrelevance into a shot at reinvention."
		Brian Seibert The New York Times	"More remarkable, though, is how the film and Ms. Whelan, without falsification, turn an extreme form of midlife crisis into a heartening tale. 'Restless Creature' makes the potential compensations of age seem as beautiful as any ballet."
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Pleasurable (...) Inspiring (...) Co-directors Saffire and Schlesinger weave this extended diary into a narrative as fluid, committed and elegant in its movements as one of Whelan's performances"
		Serena Donadoni Village Voice	"Their adoring documentary, 'Restless Creature', isn’t hagiography, but it does serve as a corrective to the way ballerinas are portrayed in fictional movies as being ferociously competitive."
		Claudia Bauer SFGATE	"[A] compelling and beautifully crafted documentary (...) Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger began filming at that crucial moment when an awareness of physical decline was dawning on her."

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