Bolero
1981 · directed by Claude Lelouch
- Rating
- 67/100
- Hit
- no
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.
Bolero (1981), directed by Claude Lelouch, rates 67/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Robert Hossein
- Nicole Garcia
- Geraldine Chaplin
- Daniel Olbrychski
- Jorge Donn
- Rita Poelvoorde
- Macha Méril
- Évelyne Bouix
- Francis Huster
- Raymond Pellegrin
Crew
- Jean Boffety — Director of Photography
- Hugues Darmois — Editor
- Sophie Bhaud — Editor
- Francis Lai — Original Music Composer
- Michel Legrand — Original Music Composer
- Claude Lelouch — Writer
More from Claude Lelouch
- A Man and a Woman (1966) — 80/100 · hit
- Lumière & Company (1995) — 80/100 · hit
- To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — 79/100
- C'était un rendezvous (1976) — 77/100 · short, not counted
- Les Miserables (1995) — 74/100
- Crossed Tracks (2007) — 73/100
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