Nijinsky (film)

Nijinsky is a 1980 American biographical film directed by Herbert Ross. Hugh Wheeler wrote a screenplay that explores the later life and career of Vaslav Nijinsky it was based largely on the premier danseurs personal diaries a bowdlerized 1936 version was edited and published by his wife, Romola de Pulszky, and her 1934 biography of Nijinsky, largely ghostwritten by Lincoln Kirstein, who later cofounded the New York City Ballet.

Reception to Nijinsky is mixed. It holds arating and an average score of 5.610 at Rotten Tomatoes.In his review in Time, Richard Schickel opined, Some people will be titillated by the openness with which homosexual love is portrayed in the film. But this is mostly a slow, cautious biography, elegantly attentive to Edwardian decor and dress. It slights Nijinskys melodramatic story and, finally, offends with its relentless reductionism. There are times when excesses of good taste become a kind of bad taste, a falsification of a subjects spirit and milieu. This is never more true than when the troubles of a genius are presented in boring and conventional terms. ........

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