Mao’s Last Dancer
2009 · directed by Bruce Beresford
- Rating
- 64/100
- Hit
- no
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 falls 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.
Mao’s Last Dancer (2009), directed by Bruce Beresford, rates 64/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Bruce Greenwood
- Kyle MacLachlan
- Joan Chen
- Chi Cao
- Amanda Schull
- Wang Shuangbao
- Aden Young
- Jack Thompson
- Penne Hackforth-Jones
- Chengwu Guo
Crew
- Peter James — Director of Photography
- Mark Warner — Editor
- Christopher Gordon — Original Music Composer
- Jan Sardi — Screenplay
More from Bruce Beresford
- Driving Miss Daisy (1989) — 81/100 · hit
- Breaker Morant (1980) — 79/100
- Black Robe (1991) — 78/100
- Tender Mercies (1983) — 74/100
- Ladies in Black (2018) — 71/100
- And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) — 66/100
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