Event Description
Élise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. Her world is shattered on the day she finds him cheating on her; and the same day she sustains a career-ending injury. The path to physical and emotional recovery will lead her away from Paris to a picturesque location in Brittany, where she finds friends, a new love and the freedom of contemporary dance.
This is an inspiring story that shows us how, sometimes, the worst thing that could happen may turn out to be the best. There is a life-affirming quality in how the film portrays the recovery process: it is not a solitary act but a communal one, as the healing of Elise’s body is made possible only by being among the collective of other creative souls. First-time actor Barbeau, a trained ballet dancer in the Paris Opera, gives a beautiful performance that communicates the emotional inferiority that exists in the physicality of dancing, bringing to mind Moira Shearer in The Red Shoes (1948).
English title: Rise
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Released date: 2021
Comedy/drama
Running time: 2hrs
Certificate: 15
French with English subtitles
Show times
Sunday 14 September 2025, 3.15pm
Sunday 14 September 2025, 6.45pm
