Mike Fink

I thought this movie was quite remarkable: each scene held an insight and a surprise. It was not stupidly anti-Russian, nor was it conventionally "liberal" and even the camera-work spoke, in close-ups, without script-explanations. Yes, he was a selfish "artist" rude to one and all and ungrateful and disloyal, but we have no impulse to judge him. "Why dance?" asks his teacher, who leaves the answer more or less up to us, the viewer, to seek a private response. I recommend this unusual bio and hope it will be a "hit," although I caught it at bargain rates in a half-forgotten cinema that I, I mean we, love without reservations for bringing us the unexpected, unpretentiously!