Margot
2009 · 85 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 300 VOTES · DIR. Otto Bathurst
Overview
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.
Dialogue Timeline — 770 lines
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00:00:05 This film contains some strong language and some scenes of a sexual nature.
00:03:59 When we build the house, you'll be able to walk to the cove from the bottom of the garden.
00:06:13 I have to get to the airport.
00:09:10 Now, this wretched gala, you're absolutely top of the bill
00:11:32 Well, everyone's always wonderful to you.
00:15:32 Madam thinks I should dance Giselle with the Russian boy, Nureyev.
00:20:26 She is a child of the theatre.
00:27:11 'It's a wonderful professional partnership.'
00:31:14 Through there.
00:34:02 People who've never seen a ballet in their lives queuing with their sleeping bags to get tickets.
00:36:48 Not when we're dancing.
00:39:27 white swan, black swan.
00:43:57 Must we really have this quite boring scene?
00:46:46 "and my behaviour leads you sometimes to doubt it.
00:49:31 The contraband was on a boat connected to a previous coup attempt made by Dr Arias.
00:52:45 Anyway, you'll probably never be able to pin Tito down long enough
00:55:12 Margot!
00:58:31 God, mummy! 30 years, more, most of them in pain of one kind or another.
01:03:30 You English...
01:07:37 Margot!
01:11:50 DOORBELL RINGS
01:14:29 If you do something enough times
01:17:11 Do you remember the first time in New York, Sleeping Beauty?
01:20:02 "and die