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By the end of James Napier Robertson’s “The American”, the audience is sure to be enthralled, viewing the film as a captivating portrayal of the legendary artist Joy Womack. But it isn’t just the artist who can be termed legendary, it’s the depiction in itself that is bound to catch your fancy. Joy Womack is one of the extremely rare American ballet dancers to have found a place in Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Founded in 1763, the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, affiliated with the renowned Bolshoi Ballet, stands as one of the oldest and most prestigious ballet schools in the world.

While watching the film, the first question that may come to mind is: Why is being accepted into this academy portrayed as such a prestigious honor? However, as the film unfolds and reveals the glamour and recognition that comes with being chosen as the academy’s ‘prima ballerina,...

"What will you do for the role? How much of your life are you willing to give?" Vertical has revealed the official US trailer for an indie thriller tilted The American, which originally premiered last year under the title Joika instead. Not to be confused with the George Clooney movie also called The American (can they even name it the same?). Based on a true story, The American follows one of the select few Americans, Joy Womack, to be admitted to the prestigious, but punishing, Russian Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow, where she is tutored by the vaunted Tatiyana Volkova. She dreams of becoming a truly extraordianry ballerina, but at what cost? "Finding unlikely support from Volkova, she risks her health, relationships and potentially her life in her journey to determine what it means to be great." Starring Talia Ryder as Joy, Diane Kruger as Volkova, Oleg Ivenko, and Natasha Alderslade.

‘Joika’ First Look

Above is your first look at Joika, the pic inspired by the story of American ballerina Joy Womack, which stars Talia Ryder and Diane Kruger. Principal photography is underway on the movie in Poland. Joining the cast are professional ballet dancers including Oleg Ivenko, as well as Tomasz Kot, Charlotte Ubben, Natasha Alderslade, Karolina Gruszka, and Borys Szyc. James Napier Robertson wrote and is directing the movie, producers are Napier Robertson and Tom Hern’s Four Knights Film, Madants’ Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska Belindalee Hope, and Paul Green. Embankment are representing international sales and co-representing domestic rights with UTA Independent Film Group.

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The first image of Diane Kruger and Talia Ryder in ballet-themed feature “Joika” has been unveiled.

James Napier Robertson (“The Dark Horse”) wrote and directs the film, which has started production in Poland.

Embankment are representing worldwide sales and co-representing U.S. rights with UTA Independent Film Group.

“Joika” is inspired by the true story of Joy Womack, an American prima ballerina who became one of the few Western women to be accepted to – and graduate from – Russia’s punishing Bolshoi Academy school of ballet.

There, Womack encountered mentor Volkova, a mentor who inspired her to jeté, metaphorically-speaking, to extraordinary heights in her career.

Womack has not only given the biopic her blessing but is choreographing its ballet.

Ryder, who has appeared in “West Side Story” and “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” plays Womack in the feature while Kruger plays Volkova. Ryder is a classically trained dancer, having studied at the Joffrey Ballet Academy and,...

‘The White Crow’ star Oleg Ivenko joins Talia Ryder and Diane Krüger in the cast.

UK sales outfit Embankment has released a first-look image of Talia Ryder and Diane Krüger in James Napier Robertson’s Joika, as production gets underway in Poland.

The New Zealand-Poland co-production is based on the true story of American ballerina Joy Womack, who is also choreographing the film’s ballet. Ryder plays Joy as she enters the difficult world of Moscow’s Bolshoi Academy, and encounters inspirational mentor Volkova (Krüger), with a script by Napier Robertson.

In addition to the previously announced leads, Ukrainian professional...

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The White Crow, BBC iPlayer, until February 22

Oleg Ivenko is a dancer by trade and in his first film role, he has the sort of graceful general comportment that only a real ballet dancer could pull off, which adds to the believability of the film. It is also great to see Ralph Fiennes, who also directs, in a mousy role for a change after all his Lord Voldemort intensity. The story of the early life of Rudolf Nureyev unfolds across a fractured triple time period structure. While these may oversell his impoverished childhood a little, the period when the dancer was in Paris, with its technicolor-bright colour palette, is immersive and Fiennes generates plenty of climactic tension, even though we all know how the dancer's defection went. Read our full review.

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To mark the release of The White Crow on 5th August, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray.

Academy Award®-nominee Ralph Fiennes and BAFTA-winning screenwriter David Hare bring the incredible true story of the legendary Rudolf Nureyev, one of the greatest and most famous ballet dancers of the 20th century, vividly to life in The White Crow.

Starring dancer and actor Oleg Ivenko as the young Nureyev The White Crow portrays his early life from his childhood in Russia to a nail-biting escape from the Kgb and his defection, in 1961 in Paris at the height of the Cold War.

With lovingly recreated period scenes of Leningrad in the 50s and Paris in the 60s and mesmerising ballet sequences, The White Crow is a visually rich, gripping and revelatory portrait of a complicated, fascinating and unique artist who became world famous and transformed ballet forever.

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Left to Right: Oleg Ivenko as Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Dudiskaya as Anna Polikarpova

Photo by Larry Horrocks. Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics.

A “white crow” is a Russian idiom meaning a misfit, an oddball, someone who does not fit the mold – a perfect description for ballet star Rudolph Nureyev.

In the 1960s, ballet stars and opera divas were pop culture rock stars, as strange as that might seems to modern ears. One of the biggest ballet stars was Rudolph Nureyev, the Russian dancer who transformed men’s role in ballet from mere props for ballerinas to dramatic, dynamic stars in their own right. But White Crow takes place long before all that, following the life of the young dancer from his hard rural Russian childhood to his tumultuous years training under the Soviet Union system to the edge of stardom while touring with the Kirov Ballet Company in Paris.

Ralph Fiennes directs this gorgeous,...

Chicago – In any ear for pop culture, the name Rudolf Nureyev is well known. A Soviet Russian-born ballet virtuoso nicknamed “Lord of the Dance,” Rn lived large until he died, of complications due to AIDS at age 54 in 1993. But before that, he was born into poverty, danced into fame, and historically defected to the West in 1961. “The White Crow,” a new film directed by Ralph Fiennes, tells his story.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

An unknown actor named Oleg Ivenko portrays Nureyev, and the title refers to the Russian term for outsider. The dancer was an ultimate lone wolf as portrayed in the film, seemingly separated from everything else by his blazing talent. Deftly directed by actor Ralph Fiennes – who also portrays Nureyev’s legendary teacher Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin – the timeline jumps from childhood through the early years as a Soviet sensation, to the Paris of 1961 at the moment of his defection. The film...

The mega rollout of Avengers: Endgame this weekend has put some pause to what has been a plentiful roster of new specialty titles in recent weeks. One distribution exec last week said off the record that most companies are holding off to wait out the juggernaut’s opening. Perhaps most are but not all. Sony Pictures Classics is opening Ralph Fiennes-directed bio-drama The White Crow in five locations in New York and L.A., offering audiences in search of a non-Marvel alternative a well-received option. The company had success with Fiennes’ previous directorial effort, 2013’s The Invisible Woman. Abramorama, meanwhile, is heading out with Venice 2018 premiere Carmine Street Guitars. The company said the documentary is set for a long “slow burn” in theaters. First Run Features is opening fellow nonfiction title Chasing Portraits by Elizabeth Rynecki, which chronicles her search for paintings created by her great-grandfather, Moshe Rynecki,...

Training as a professional dancer in Ukraine, actor Oleg Ivenko says he admired the ballet icons of the late 20th century. Now the leading man of Ralph Fiennes’ The White Crow, the first-time actor fills the dancing shoes of classical ballet great Rudolf Nureyev.

Set in Paris at the height of the Cold War, The White Crow documents the days leading up to Nureyev’s dramatic defection from the Soviet Union for the West. The Sony Pictures Classics drama, set to hit North American theaters April 26, also features the talent of Fiennes both on- and offscreen, Louis Hofmann and Adè...

Training as a professional dancer in Ukraine, actor Oleg Ivenko says he admired the ballet icons of the late 20th century. Now the leading man of Ralph Fiennes’ The White Crow, the first-time actor fills the dancing shoes of classical ballet great Rudolf Nureyev.

Set in Paris at the height of the Cold War, The White Crow documents the days leading up to Nureyev’s dramatic defection from the Soviet Union for the West. The Sony Pictures Classics drama, set to hit North American theaters April 26, also features the talent of Fiennes both on- and offscreen, Louis Hofmann and Adè...

We are still in the beginning phases of a reckoning with toxic masculinity that may take years to dismantle, and yet there is a persistent desire to move past it and to attempt to understand the problematic male genius on screen. We’re currently seeing it on the small screen in the new FX series “Fosse/Verdon,” and now on the big screen with “The White Crow.” And it is a chore to get through both.

The Ralph Fiennes-directed movie aims to illuminate the life of ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev (Oleg Ivenko), who left his poverty-stricken childhood in the Soviet Union behind in 1961, in the midst of its tumultuous political climate, to defect to the west in Paris. Fiennes and screenwriter David Hare are very deliberate about showing us, through flashbacks, his Saint Petersburg upbringing, where he and his three sisters shared one bed and their mother ventured out in...

The White Crow Sony Pictures Classics Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net by: Harvey Karten Director: Ralph Fiennes Screenwriter: David Hare Cast: Oleg Ivenko, Adele Exarchopoulos, Ralph Fiennes, Raophel Peronnaz, Chulpan Khamatova, Sergie Polunin, Dalypso Valois Screened at: Sony, NYC, 3/20/19 Opens: April 26, 2019 Rudolph Nureyev would likely be famous even if he remained with […]

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The story of “The White Crow,” Ralph Fiennes’ latest directorial effort, is as topical as anything currently sitting on the desk of a studio head. It tells of a rebellious artist grappling with his sexuality during turbulent political times rife with tensions between the United States and an agitated Russia. But though the upcoming film, which Sony Pictures Classics will release Stateside on April 26, may be weirdly timely, it is actually set nearly 60 years ago and depicts the true tale of late ballet sensation Rudolf Nureyev.

Known for performances that were sinewy and sensual, Nureyev inflamed Cold War tensions when he became one of the first megastars to defect from the Soviet Union in 1961. Once in the United States, the ballet and contemporary dancer and choreographer became a household name, partnering with Margot Fonteyn in acclaimed productions of “Giselle” and “Swan Lake,” appearing on “The Muppet Show” and playing Rudolph Valentino...

The White Crow and Sorry Angel are also opening.

Jordan Peele’s horror film Us, the director’s follow-up to his phenomenally successful debut Get Out, rolls out widely in the UK this weekend via Universal.

Us is also being released in the Us today, where the film’s opening is being forecast to top $40m (£30.6m) by various reports. That would eclipse the Us opening of Get Out, which started with $33.4m (£25.5m) and closed on a hugely impressive $176m (£134.3m).

In the UK, Get Out opened with £2.2m and closed on £10.4m. Based on those figures, Us is...

This retelling of Rudolf Nureyev’s escape to the west survives some flat acting thanks to David Hare’s nuanced script

The White Crow is a watchable, serviceable movie telling the story of ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev and his sensational escape to the west in the early 60s at the age of 23, while on his first European tour. Dance is represented as a transcendental experience of success, of leaving behind the past and reinventing the future. Like Billy Elliot’s defection from his working-class childhood, Nureyev’s flight involves crises of loyalty with family and community. These struggles are, however, a little enigmatic and opaque with Rudolf, as portrayed by the Ukrainian ballet star and first-time actor Oleg Ivenko. Ralph Fiennes directs and gives a performance of spaniel-eyed sadness as Nureyev’s dance teacher and mentor Alexander Pushkin, with whose wife Xenia (Chulpan Khamatova), Nureyev is to have a sentimental education.

In front of the lens, Ralph Fiennes is a gloriously eclectic performer. From big dramatic productions on home soil, to Hollywood blockbusters, he’s a man of variety. Behind the lens, however, he directs profound, important tales and his latest is in that vein – telling the story of Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev, with Oleg Ivenko taking on the lead role.

To celebrate the film’s release, we sat down with the pair, as well as the venerable screenwriter David Hare, to discuss this striking true story. Ivenko discusses what is his very first feature film, while Fiennes explains why he sought to hire a dancer who could act, as opposed to an actor who could dance. He also discusses the important of art, and our commitment to making it at any cost – a prevalent theme within this title. Hare also comments on the issue, while we also get him...

Ralph Fiennes brings the story of Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the West to the big screen in The White Crow. He stars and directs the film, which is an adaptation of Julie Kavanagh’s Rudolf Nureyev: The Life. It stars Oleg Ivenko, Louis Hofmann, Adele Exarchopoulos, Sergei Polunin, Raphael Peronnaz and Chilpan Khamatova.

Attending the premiere were director/actor Ralph Fiennes, Oleg Ivenko, Louis Hofmann, David Hare, Gabrielle Tena and Ben Eshkeri.

Colin Hart and Scott Davis were on the red carpet and conducted these interviews.

The film arrives in cinemas in the UK on the 22nd of March, 2019 and the Us on the 26th of April, 2019.

The White Crow Premiere Interviews

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The dramatic real life story of Soviet ballet and contemporary dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev and his defection to the West.

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"This could be your last trip." Studiocanal UK has debuted the first official UK trailer for the biopic drama The White Crow, the latest film directed by acclaimed actor Ralph Fiennes. It tells the incredible true story of renowned Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who managed to defect from the Soviet Union to the West, despite being closely guarded by the Kgb, while traveling through Paris in 1961. Nureyev is played by real-life ballet dancer Oleg Ivenko making his acting debut, along with Ralph Fiennes in a role as his ballet coach Alexander Pushkin. The cast also includes Adèle Exarchopoulos, Louis Hofmann, Sergei Polunin, Olivier Rabourdin, Raphaël Personnaz, Chulpan Khamatova, Zach Avery, and Mar Sodupe. This premiered at the Telluride and London Film Festivals last year, and should be released in the Us later this year. Based on the reviews and first look at this footage, this seems like it might be pretty good.

Ralph Fiennes returns behind the camera (and in front) for his third directorial effort as he brings audiences the provocative story of Rudolf Nureyev, played by newcomer Oleg Ivenko. The film conveys the tale of Nureyev’s defection from the Soviet Union, his trajectory in Paris with the current political climate boiling over, and to his eventual rise to become the Lord of the Dance, ultimately being the greatest male ballet star of his generation.

“There are many biographies of Nureyev, but I became acquainted with a biography by Julie Kavanagh written in 2007,” stated Ralph Fiennes. “I read the first six chapters, which dealt with Nureyev’s student years, leading up to the moment of his defection in 1961. I have to say that I had no interest in ballet as such, but what this biography introduced me to was the force and the spirit of this young artist from this poor background,...

StudioCanal UK has released the trailer for “The White Crow,” Ralph Fiennes’ first time behind the camera since he directed and starred in 2013’s “The Invisible Woman.” Based on Julie Kavanaugh’s book “Rudolf Nureyev: The Life,” it follows the life of the revered Russian ballet dancer who defected from the Soviet Union in 1961 despite Kgb efforts to stop him. In the newly released trailer, tensions are high when politics and dance collide.

Here’s the synopsis: “Rudolf Nureyev (Oleg Ivenko), a remarkable young dancer of 22, is a member of the world-renowned Kirov Ballet Company, traveling to Paris in 1961 for his first trip outside the Soviet Union. But Kgb officers watch his every move, becoming increasingly suspicious of his behavior and his friendship with the young Parisienne Clara Saint (Adèle Exarchopoulos). When they finally confront Nureyev with a shocking demand, he is forced to make a heart-breaking decision, one that...

Studiocanal has launched the trailer for Ralph Fiennes, ‘The White Crow’ based on the legendary ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

The incredible true story of dancer Rudolf Nureyev is brought vividly to life by Academy Award®-nominee Ralph Fiennes and BAFTA-winning screenwriter David Hare. The film follows Nureyev from his poverty-stricken childhood in the Soviet city of Ufa, to blossoming as a student dancer in Leningrad, to his nail-biting escape from the Kgb and defection to the West at the height of the Cold War.

The film stars Fiennes, Oleg Ivenko as Rudolf Nureyev, Adele Exarchopoulos, Chulpan Khamatova and Sergei Polunin.

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The film hits UK cinemas March 22nd.

The White Crow Synopsis

A young man of just 22, dressed in a black beret and a dark narrow suit, is on an aeroplane flying from St Petersburg to Paris.

Here’s a stirring first trailer for the Ralph Fiennes-directed Rudolf Nureyev drama The White Crow, which Sony Pictures Classics will release in the U.S. later this year.

Starring are dancer Oleg Ivenko as Nureyev, Fiennes, Adele Exarchopoulos, Chulpan Khamatova and revered ballet figure Sergei Polunin. Script comes from David Hare (The Reader).

The film charts the life of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev, from his poverty-stricken childhood in the Soviet city of Ufa, to blossoming as a student dancer in Leningrad, to his escape from the Kgb and defection to the West at the height of the Cold War. Studiocanal releases in the UK on March 22.

HanWay inks further territories on Rudolf Nureyev drama.

Studiocanal has bought UK rights for The White Crow, Ralph Fiennes’ thriller about Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the West at the height of the Cold War.

HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales and co-financed the feature with BBC Films and Rogue Black. The film recently premiered at Telluride and will play as a Gala at the BFI London Film Festival next month.

HanWay has also struck a raft of new territory deals on the title: Alamode (Germany), DeAplaneta (Spain), E1, Praesens (Switzerland), Nos Lusomundo (Portugal), Odeon (Greece), Discovery...

Why did world-famous Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defect? That’s the question I found myself Googling immediately after seeing Ralph Fiennes’ lovely, elegant, and curiously opaque “The White Crow,” an impressive, dance-heavy biopic which focuses on Nureyev’s childhood, training, and life-changing visit to Paris as part of the Kirov Ballet, culminating in his decision to seek asylum in France. For all its pleasures — among them generous helpings of dance and a true-life East-meets-West intrigue to rival fictive Cannes favorite “Cold War” — the film remains maddeningly ambiguous about his motives for cutting ties with the Soviet Union.

Of course, some things we can never know, although in this case, it feels like more of a creative choice than a historical one, leaving culture-savvy art-house audiences something to ponder after a classy — and respectfully sexy — night at the movies. Such crowds are presumably familiar with the reputation Nureyev made for himself over the subsequent decades,...

Sony Pictures Classics has bought rights in North America and many foreign markets to Ralph Fiennes’ Rudolf Nureyev biopic “The White Crow.”

In a deal announced Monday, Sony Classics also acquired rights to Latin America, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, and Benelux from HanWay Films.

“The White Crow” is based on the book “Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanaugh.” Fiennes directed from a script by David Hare. HanWay Films, which is handling worldwide sales, also co-financed the film together with BBC Films and Rogue Black.

Oleg Ivenko stars as Nureyev, alongside Adèle Exarchopoulos as Clara Saint, and Fiennes as Russian ballet coach Alexander Pushkin. The cast also includes dancer Sergei Polunin, Chulpan Khamatova, Olivier Rabourdin, Raphaël Personnaz, and Louis Hofmann.

Nureyev, a Russian native, sought asylum in France in 1961 at the height of the Cold War. The film offers insight into Nureyev’s defection, masterminded by the dancer’s great friend,...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights for Ralph Fiennes’ film “The White Crow,” the studio said on Monday.

The film, based on the book “Rudolf Nureyev: The Life” by Julie Kavanaugh, was directed by Fiennes and written by Oscar-nominated David Hare. Along with North America, Sony nabbed rights to distribute the film in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, and Benelux.

“The White Crow” captures the physicality and brilliance of ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. Nureyev emerged as one of ballet’s most famous stars, and though seen as a wild and beautiful dancer he was limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the Kgb. The film offers insight into Nureyev’s dangerous defection, masterminded by the dancer’s great friend,...

David Hare adapted screenplay about Russian dancer’s daring escape to West.

Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North America and multiple territories from HanWay Films to Ralph Fiennes’ Rudolf Nureyev drama The White Crow.

The distributor will put The White Crow through Sony for Latin America, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, and Benelux.

David Hare’s screenplay inspired by Julie Kavanaugh’s book Rudolf Nureyev: The Life chronicles Russian ballet star Nureyev’s daring escape to the West at the height of the Cold War.

HanWay Films handles worldwide sales and co-financed the feature with BBC Films and Rogue Black.

Exclusive: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North America and key markets on Ralph Fiennes’ Rudolf Nureyev pic The White Crow from HanWay Films.

The prestige label has also taken Latin America, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Asia and Benelux.

Inspired by the book Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanaugh, the drama charts the iconic dancer’s famed defection from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961, despite Kgb efforts to stop him. Fiennes directs from a script by David Hare (The Hours). The anticipated drama is still in the running for an autumn festival berth.

Acclaimed dancer Oleg Ivenko stars as Nureyev, alongside Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Color) as Clara Saint, and Fiennes as Russian ballet coach Alexander Pushkin. Also featured are ballet-world enfant terrible Sergei Polunin, Chulpan Khamatova, Olivier Rabourdin, Raphaël Personnaz and Louis Hofmann.

The deal was negotiated between Spc and Gabrielle Stewart for HanWay.

Exclusive: Laurent Lafitte, Raphaël Personnaz, Louis Hofmann also board project.

Ralph Fiennes has joined the cast of The White Crow, his project about Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

Fiennes will play Nureyev’s teacher and mentor, Pushkin, who helped launch Nureyev’s career out of St Petersburg, and will also direct the feature.

As previously reported, professional dancer Oleg Ivenko will play the lead role of Nureyev, while fellow dancer Sergei Polunin, Blue Is The Warmest Colour star Adèle Exarchopoulos and Russian actress Chulpan Khamatova are among the cast.

The production has now also attached Elle star Laurent Lafitte, The French Minister star Raphaël Personnaz, Personal Shopper actor Calypso Valois and Land Of Mine star Louis Hofmann ahead of its summer 2017 shoot in St Petersburg and Paris, with locations including the Mariinsky Theatre and the Palais Garnier.

Two-time Oscar-nominee David Hare (The Hours, The Reader) has adapted the screenplay from Julie Kavanagh’s book Rudolf Nureyev, which...

Blue is the Warmest Color star Adèle Exarchopoulos is staying busy, having finished a highly-anticipated film and joining another. First up, she’s starring alongside Matthias Schoenaerts in Michaël R. Roskam‘s The Drop follow-up Racer and the Jailbird, recently picked up by the newly-launched distribution company Neon. Likely stopping by Cannes, check out the first look above and synopsis below for the French-language, Belgian-set romantic thriller from the director of Bullhead.

The drama takes place in the fast-paced world of racing, and centers on a story of love at first sight when gangster Gino aka ‘Gigi’ (Matthias Schoenaerts) meets Benedicte aka ‘Bibi’ (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a wealthy and fearless racing driver. Gigi and Bibi fall madly in love, but with fate stacked against them their loyalties will be pushed to the limit. How much can their love endure to save what may already be lost?

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The “Blue Is The Warmest Color” stars are getting busy. First up, Adèle Exarchopoulos is joining Chulpan Khamatova (“Good Bye Lenin!”) and dancers Oleg Ivenko and Sergei Polunin to star in Ralph Fiennes’ next directorial effort “The White Crow.” About famous Russian ballet dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev, the drama charts the iconic dancer’s famed defection from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961, despite Kgb efforts to stop him.

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