The Company Page #4

Synopsis: An inside look at the world of ballet. With the complete cooperation of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Altman follows the stories of the dancers, whose professional and personal lives grow impossibly close, as they cope with the demands of a life in the ballet. Campbell plays a gifted but conflicted company member on the verge of becoming a principal dancer at a fictional Chicago troupe, with McDowell the company's co-founder and artistic director, considered one of America's most exciting choreographers. Franco plays Campbell's boyfriend and one of the few characters not involved in the world of dance.
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Director(s): Robert Altman
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
PG-13
Year:
2003
112 min
Website
223 Views


as it is.

This piece will be fantastic

on this company.

I believe you.

That's why you're here.

Someone has to underwrite this.

It's going to be so expensive.

I'm going to have to sell it to

the board. Excuse me? What.

Would you excuse me?

I've got an important thing.

- I can continue with the staff.

- Let me just tell you...

You are a genius. I'm never wrong

about these things, am I?

- He never appears to be.

- Ok. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

- Oh, Robert?

- Yes?

Three things to remember:

Budget, budget, budget.

I will do my best.

- When we'll get the music?

- The music is being written now.

- Well then for rehearsals?

- There is no music.

Counts?

No counts. I like the dancers

to feel their own rhythm.

- And then the music can come in.

- Well, it'll be a new experience.

That's not good,

out of a straw.

Oh well, moving

right along.

We can pass it around.

Who threw this penis at me?

I think this is more you,

Missy.

I think that's more

your style.

We got a salmon position 1,

beef position 3, table 22.

Sorry.

Are you a dancer?

Thank you.

Got it.

Oh, John.

What are doing here?

I could stay here just for a

little bit, a couple of days.

God, I am like booked.

You could put me on the floor.

I've got my sleeping bag.

- Just for a couple of days.

- Alright, come on in.

What's going on? I thought

you were staying with your family.

I was staying with my

aunt and...

I think she committed suicide.

So I can't stay there anymore.

Can I use your pen?

- God. I'm sorry.

- Yeah.

$8.50 a day, just for

a couple of days.

Just for a couple of days.

Definitely.

God, I'm so sorry. What's happened?

Did she shoot herself?

No, it wasn't that dramatic.

She took some pills.

I don't know, she was a little

crazy. She was very eccentric.

- So yeah, just a couple of days?

- Yeah, just a couple of days.

- You're last for the bathroom.

- Right.

And cross the fifths.

And...

That's it, long arms.

Shoulders down, ladies.

Lots of bourres.

Shoulders down.

Big arch.

Hold, 2, 3.

I got to say something here.

Mark, turn off the music.

Why do you always do this,

babies?

You always get phony on me.

I don't know why you do that.

This is supposed to the 60's.

This is what the '60s were all about.

Kids protesting against the war

trying to change the world...

so they bent the rules, turned to

drugs, took off their clothes.

They made a noise. Peace marches,

singing their songs in the streets...

carrying flowers when they were

being beaten and pushed around.

All that went

into this ballet.

You see, it's not the steps.

It's what's inside that counts.

That's when you really

begin to soar.

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