MANGAWHAI MOVIES
2 PM | MARGOT
Sun, 22 Sept
|Mangawhai Movies
2008 | Film | 2 H 43 Min| Not rated
Time & Location
22 Sept 2024, 2:00 pm – 4:43 pm
Mangawhai Movies, 181 Molesworth Drive, Mangawhai, New Zealand
About the event
2008 | Film | 2H 43 Min | Not rated
Margot Fonteyn was the greatest dancer England has ever produced. In her life she transcended the
world of dance and became a tabloid darling second to none, a true celebrity.
And when, already in her forties, Fonteyn teamed up with Rudolf Nureyev, their astonishing union
created one of the most brilliant and magical partnerships in all of ballet history. Their artistic and
sexual chemistry electrified all those who were lucky enough to watch them perform.
But her remarkable talent and façade of fastidious primness masked a dark torrent within.
Fonteyn’s life was the stuff of unimaginable fiction: taken as an underage mistress; married to a
Panamanian Ambassador; involved in an attempted military coup; the lover of innumerable, often
homosexual, public figures; a cultural icon of the swinging sixties; betrayed by her husband’s family
and, above all, a dancer of extraordinary physical eloquence and purity - all culminating in this fragile
beauty dying a penniless, lonely recluse.
Among the ballets featured are: ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘Swan Lake’, ‘Giselle’, ‘The Sleeping Beauty’,
‘Marguerite and Armand’, and ‘The Nutcracker’.
The final film as part of the 2024 Mangawhai Opera Lovers Film Festival.
Join us for a glass of bubbles and canapes at 1.45pm.
Note the start time is 2pm (1400), not 4pm. Ticket price is $15.
Tickets
Adult
Cash payment required at the door (We have Eftpos available)
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