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Frankly, I don’t survey why everybody is so up in arms about the quality of this movie. I, for one, don’t need to preface my review with a disclaimer that only its dance sequences can be enjoyed. I happen to believe that it’s a pleasing helpful cinematographic work overall. Let me account for.
The camera work here is among the most new and clever out there. It’s incredibly dynamic and energetic, offering current perspectives, delivering ample close-ups, and skillfully capturing the sweeping wide spaces. An unusually grand amount of footage is devoted to the city landscapes of St. Petersburg – a rarity in American flicks on Russian themes. It’s all the more jarring, however, that despite attempts to ensure authenticity of the setting, at least the first couple of car rides seem to have been done in a stationary vehicle and plastered rather crudely against the city background. But this is a forgivable and almost charming flaw, considering the film’s cramped budget and the release year of 1985.
The film is a paradox of sorts, showcasing enchanting performances from Rossellini and Hines, two actors who have since been totally under-appreciated. There’s salubrious chemistry between the impressionable and high-strung duet of Darya and Raymond. Jerzy Skolimovski (Colonel Chaiko) is the classical cunning villain with a Slavic flare. Baryshnikov himself seems a bit rigid and somewhat formulaic as Nikolay Rodchenko. That is when he’s not dancing, of course. For when he dances, he unleashes all imaginable and unimaginable potential.
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Obviously, the myth line is sketched out in sizable, exaggerated strokes. But I bet the filmmakers actually expected the overall theatricality to be taken with a grain of salt. Besides, the subject matter discussed wasn’t alive to on subtleties. The events depicted were behind-the-scenes operations all factual, but they were as blunt and theatrically bizarre as can be. And as for those who believe the circumstances and emotions of the dissidence and emigration (or defection in this case) experience are overblown – brush up on mid-20th century history and acquire a grip on things. Not only had the Tremendous Brother’s machinery of region control and suppression been well oiled for decades in the Soviet Union and its satellites, but the shadow of this absurd, merciless beast hangs over many of those nations composed. Folks, the fictionalized story of Nikolay Rodchenko is merely a _slightly_ glamorized and dramatized version of true life experience of countless victims of the era.
The scenes of Nikolay and Darya fleeing through the deserted streets of Leningrad and the subsequent humiliation they experience in front of the American embassy send chills down my spine every time I seek the movie. That threat and that pain are very actual to me even though my emigration experience in the 1990s was simply peachy in retrospect and comparison. Unbiased as disturbing and sobering, by the design, is Rodchenko’s reception by the Americans and the so-called international community inside the gates. He to them is but a nimble exotic specimen…
Anyhow, let me dismount my high horse and reiterate, seconding the earlier reviews, that “White Nights” features generous, matchless dancing; and, to miss it is a deathly sin. Well, almost…
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There are essentially four dance highlights in the movie. Choreography is mainly by Baryshnikov, Hines, and, very importantly, Twyla Tharp. Baryshnikov’s duet with Florence Faure in the opening credits is tear to leave your breathless. It is sheer perfection – immensely inventive and impeccably executed. The second instance when you’ll forget that you could blink and breathe is during the 11 rubles for 11 pirouettes number. He does it with a godly effortlessness. Hines’ and Baryshnikov’s dance studio number is captivating to look. And, then… Then, there’s Mikhail’s solo to Vysotsky’s tape on the stage of the Kirov theatre. Its beauty is literally painful and words can never report it.
If you haven’t seen “White Nights” or have seen it only once, you’re denying yourself an unearthly pleasure. And you can snicker at my high-flown sighs and exclamations all you want 
Don’t allege me, that this is for dancing funs only! I expend to be professional demolish dancer, enjoied the exellent ” dance ” parts in the film … but I watched it for the chronicle, not the intertainment!
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Michail Barishnikov’s character is a ” deserter ” from Russia . He is on the flight to Europe and after spacious mechanical problems during the flight, the plane had to land in USSR . He is in awe … and later we understand, why! KGB wanted to produce example out of him, so others will not follow …
Save on top of it exellent scenaries of Leningrad, 3rd most beatifull city in Europe … I was lucky to be born there, and I lived there too, for most of my life .
And it is not only about the dwelling in this movie – to dwelling yourself free … from russian KGB, from the past… If you don’t dispute Russian, you don’t know the meaning of the song by Vladimir Visotskiy … Let me go my horses … Let me go … spot me free ..! The song, which became a grave monument for one of the greatest,unbiased russian singers and actors … he never surrended . But he composed alive in his work… in our harts .
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