France released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: A dance about a piece of music within a film about dance. From celebrated film director, screenwriter, and Cahiers du cinéma critic Olivier Assayas (Paris, je t'aime, Boarding Gate) comes Eldorado / Preljocaj, a riveting, two-part documentary chronicling the efforts of Ballet Preljocaj to choreograph an otherworldly icon of 21st century music: Karlheinz Stockhausen's ethereal Sonntags-Abschied. With a camera both patient and obsessive, as determined to translate gesture into film as Ballet Preljocaj is to turn tone into gesture, Mr. Assayas uses a voyeur's eye to transform the private rituals of the rehearsal process into a public drama of human perseverance. If at times the audience sees the dancers' bodies at one with Stockhausen's electronic soundscape, at other moments, the audience sees the all-too-human flesh beautifully lost in translation. What results is a riveting testament to three arts in dialogue-and to the ineluctable human desire to translate one into another. ...Eldorado (Dance Film) ( Eldorado/Preljocaj )
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 7.48 x 5.31 x 0.55 inches; 2.75 ounces
- Director : Olivier Assayas
- Media Format : Import, Subtitled, PAL
- Run time : 189 minutes
- Actors : Angelin Preljocaj
- Subtitles: : English
- Producers : Eldorado (Dance Film) ( Eldorado/Preljocaj ), Eldorado (Dance Film), Eldorado/Preljocaj
- Language : French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
- Country of Origin : France
- Number of discs : 1