Matthew Bourne's Cinderella

I love Matthew Bourne!. I have many of his musicals on dvd and this one did not disappoint!

Great DVD and great company. Showing this to my University dancers for a class.

Amazingly danced and performed!

Matthew Bourne has done it again. Cinderella has been done to death, but this one breaks the mold. His reimagining of the story in World War II London is very creative and really fits Prokofiev's eerily beautiful music. The staging is spectacular and Bourne's ability to tell a complex and dramatic story through movement and dance really comes through.

I love it. The update is amazing, the dancers are divine.

You really need an imagination to connect this to The Cinderelloa we all know.....

Matthew Bourne has converted a delightful fairy tale into a story with the stark realism of the 1940 London Blitz. In other Cinderellas the two step-sisters provide the comic relief. No comedy here, they have only a minor role. And there are also 3 obnoxious step-brothers to clutter up the stage in the first act. (If this is supposed to be comedy, it escapes me.) There’s a clever duet between Cinderella and a mannikin, but that’s about it. The fairy godmother is a male angel, and to preserve the 1940 milieu, he drives her to the ball in a motorcycle with a sidecar (actually 1918). The prince is an RAF airman, who definitely is not in good shape (possibly has something like shell-shock.) The ball is actually a party at a nightclub, but the nightclub has just been bombed and there are a lot of dead bodies lying all over the place. However, the angel gets there first and brings everybody back to life again, where the couples start dancing something like a jitterbug. The airman is there, now rejuvenated, and he joins in the dancing. In other Cinderellas, just before midnight she and the prince “declare their love” with a duet that’s a highlight of the ballet. Here, the airman does the prince one better, and takes Cindy to bed for a little quickie sex. Comes midnight there’s no clock, but the Nazis have to come back and bomb the place all over again (good stage effects). Half the people are killed and Cinderella is wounded. She is carted off to the hospital, losing the obligatory shoe in the process. The third act after that gets even worse. The airman suffers a lot in looking for Cinderella, and I suffered also just watching him. The ballet ends 3 years later with a particularly corny sequel. It’s awful. I have an extensive ballet DVD collection with 10 Cinderellas (and another one with Strauss music). Many have modifications of the original Cinderella story, but they all have a goodly amount of charm, grace, and magic. But not this one. It has a few interesting portions and I was tempted to give it a 2 rating, but that third act was a killer. (Perhaps you might call this a dance-drama instead of a ballet -- even still, I didn't like it.) I guess you have to be a Bourne fan to appreciate this ballet. I note that when it comes to a chorus of only one sex, he seems to prefer the male (as in this and his Swan Lake).

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I cannot praise this version too highly. Matthew Bourne has produced a ballet that deserves repeated viewings to fully appreciate every piece of his choreography.. He has set the action during the Blitz in London and Cinderella dreams of going to the the ball (Cafe De Paris) when she is concussed by a blast from a bomb and meets her injured airman friend as a Hollywood movie star. The dancing is excellent by all the cast and as you would expect from one of his productions, the acting skills are first rate. The filming is fantastic to show important o expressions of their faces and body movements. I have watched this several times and find something new to appreciate each viewing. I just marvel at his imagination given to his ballets and this one never disappoints. I look forward to more of his productions in the future.

Mi è piaciuto moltissimo!

20年以上前、ロンドンで初演を見て以来、ボーンで最も好きな作品の一つです。 時代は第二次世界大戦の頃（おそらくドイツからの攻撃にロンドンがあたふたしている時代）、王子様ならぬ空軍パイロット、魔法使いのおばあさんではなく、白いスーツのイケメン天使（羽はついていないけれど）、カボチャの馬車はバイクとサイドカーと、聞いただけでワクワクするようなボーン世界満載のシンデレラです。 バレエのシンデレラを知っていると、それとの比較や対比ができて、楽しみが広がるかとも思います。ボーンにしては全体的に毒のないハッピーな作品で、ラストシーンでの二人の幸せそうな旅立ちに続き、天使がさらに幸せを届けていきそうな予感を残した終わり方も素敵。 初演当時は、パイロットがアダム・クーパー、シンデレラがクーパーの奥さんのサラ・ワイルダー、天使は後にハリウッド映画にも出るウィリアム・ケンプという豪華キャスト。ボーンの他作品は次々と映像化される中、このシンデレラだけはなく、もう映像化はされないものと諦めていた今になって、思いがけずブルーレイが出て、即買いしました。 来日公演も見ましたが、ディテールがおもしろいので、映像で何度も見られるのはありがたい。 初演キャスト版で映像化されなかったのが残念ですが、キャストは誰であれ、内容はとても楽しいものです。ブラザーストンのオシャレな衣装も健在。 私はマーケットプレイスで輸入盤を購入したので、インタビュー等の特典映像に字幕はありませんでした。英語に自信のない人には残念だとは思いますが、本編の舞台だけでも、じゅうぶん買う価値はあります。 唯一この映像に難点をあげるとすると、せっかくの楽しいカーテンコールで、最後にシンデレラとパイロットの二人が出てきて踊ろうという所に、出演者やスタッフ等関係者のクレジット字幕をかぶせるのをやめてほしかった。このカーテンコールは、じゅうぶんに作品の一部分。カーテンコールまで全部終わって、映像が暗くなってから音楽と字幕だけ流せばいいじゃん。せっかく映像化したのに、作品が完全に終わる前に、なぜデカデカと、ダンスシーンに字幕をかぶせる!? このデリカシーのなさが、不思議だし残念でならない。

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