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Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.

The film shows a complex portrait of the impressionist Edgar Degas in this poetic short. The film establishes a dialogue between the arts, while foregrounding the artist's problematic legacy.

For his first live-action movie, Michel Ocelot captured Pablo Legasa - Premier Dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet - dancing in the sky to Erik Satie's Gnossienne n°1.

Adaptation of the work of Wedekind which was a scandal in his time and which tells the tragic life of a young woman who becomes rich by chance to finish in misery and who ends his life by a fatal encounter with Jack The Ripper.

tale of the three loves of the poet Hoffmann. One is Olympia, actually an automaton that Hoffmann is tricked into loving and believing loves him in return by the scientist Spalanzani and the demon. The second is Antonia, whose illness threatens her life if she sings. However, she is be-spelled by the demon and sings herself to death. The third is the courtesan Giulietta, who seduces Hoffmann under the order of the demon in order to capture his reflection in a mirror.

Gracile and light as a bird, an apparition, dressed in diaphanous white veils, appears on the rooftops of the Opéra Garnier, with a white dove as her companion. A voice calls her to the stage. Another voice, that of Violette Verdy, a dance teacher, addresses her with the admiration of the one whose expectations have been met. This is how we spectators learn that the floating creature is none other than Monique Loudières, one of the Etoile dancers of the Paris Opera, and Violette's former pupil. The ghost then takes flesh, but only to some extent such is the way Monique Loudières defies gravity. From then on she will be seen rehearsing great roles in scenes from famous ballets with partners of the stature of Patrick Dupond and Manuel Legris, either under the benevolent guidance of great elders who pass on their knowledge (Yvette Chauviré, Violette Verdy) or of international masters of contemporary choreography (Jerome Robbins, Jiri Kylian...) Attentive, concentrated, in love with perfection, we see her integrate the gestures, positions and movements they indicate only to replicate them in the moment in the inspired way that make her their ideal interpreter. In the end, the ballerina and the dove become unsubstantial again and vanish in the realm of the stars where they belong.