the rite of spring

Summary: The movie takes place in Paris in 1913 and the 20th century. Igor Stravinsky’s on of Europe’s new composers. His ballet The Rite of Spring is about to make its premiere as we learned in class is the music is not liked by everyone to some people it is too modern and is a very controversial. There was one listener that liked the performance and that was Coco Chanel who was a well known fashion designer. She wore a beautiful white dress to the ballet. Now it 1920 and Igor Stravinsky has moved to Paris because of a war in Russia. Coco business has taken off but she is mourning the death of a friend so when she meets Igor and they are instantly connected to each other and she invited Igor, his very sick wife and their children to live with her. Coco and Igor do have an affair but it ended after awhile. The last scene of the movie show that Igor The Rite of Spring has because loved ballet and is now a masterpiece. To me this film is showing how much of a success Igor Stravinsky music was. Like we learned in class the 20th century was a time of change for music and Stravinsky The Rite of Spring was the first big piece of music that showed that change. It was not liked at first some people were outraged at the amount of changed this piece had. As the movie showed this piece did not get good reviews the night it made its first premiere. The nature of the movie and choreography given by Nijinsky cause a near-riot in the audience but because of this this musical work is probably the most influential works in the 20th century. Yes this film is historically accurate it is shown in the first scene of the movie when they re-enacted the opening scenes. I did some reading online and the way the choreography was done and the costumes were done historically correct. The dramatic impact this had on the crowd was also done correctly because of the riot it caused due to how different it was for the time period. I would think that the actors have to do a lot of