A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.... (Full plot summary below)
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A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
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| Common Sense MediaNell MinowComes alive in the ballets, which convey not only the creative energy of their own story-telling but the ultimate expression of the performers' passion for their art. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA well-meaning but bland picture that shortchanges its subject. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...somehow makes the extraordinary true story it's based on seem like common corn while succeeding in modest ways. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerToo often, though, the film plods along on the ground. |
| Film.comJonathan F. RichardsBruce Beresford's biopic of Li Cunxin, the Chinese ballet dancer who defected while on a student visa in Houston in 1981, is sometimes the movie equivalent of Oscar Meyer cold cuts. But the dancing is pure caviar. |
| Hollywood ReporterPeter BrunetteLike most films in this underdog genre, the emotional manipulation of the audience is constant and obvious. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeBeresford knows the only way to deal with schmaltz is to just go ahead and embrace it. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. Levit'Mao's Last Dancer' is so much cliché, weighted with mediocre acting, that dance devotees will find little inspiration in the short performance sequences. |
| Movie RetrieverBrian TallericoA well-intentioned slice of melodrama but all the good intentions in the world can't hide the film's many, many flaws. |
| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunIf you're on the lookout for something in the indomitable human spirit category, look no further than Mao's Last Dancer. |
