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.
00:09:14 especially now our marvellous Russian's a no-go. Ulanova?
00:11:38 I told you about the article in the Express. You'd be surprised how many people in high places
00:15:39 I've never seen anything like it.
00:20:34 Isn't it, my love?
00:27:31 This I cannot talk about.
00:31:36 And John and Ari both point, and at the same time they say, "Tito!"
00:34:13 Beyond our wildest dreams, really.
00:37:32 Sit down.
00:39:42 You know, Margot, darling
00:44:09 What did you think would happen, marrying me?
00:47:02 "gentle heart
00:49:55 Where are my roses? Sorry, Dame Margot.
00:53:03 Every time I get into a studio I haven't a clue what I'm doing, you know that.
00:56:31 He was in the car, at traffic lights.
00:58:59 Sometimes I think if I see another flower, I'll actually have to scream! It's lovely, to be given so much.
01:04:45 I'll telephone from Spoleto. I am so sorry. I hate having to do this.
01:09:55 So, now you are a saint.
01:12:16 Can I say, Dame Margot, I saw you at the Wells in the '30s, when I was a medical student.
01:15:04 Yes, always.
01:18:03 Yes, I think that's marvellous advice.
01:24:42 Extract by ARS