Artistry and the Cold War collide in biopic on dancer Nureyev
Very few movies have ever successfully conveyed what it’s like to be an artistic genius. The creative process, almost by definition, resists depiction. It’s too intuitive and mysterious to be captured, let alone dramatized.
The highly uneven “The White Crow” deals with the formative early years of the great Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev leading up to his defection in Paris in 1961 at the height of the Cold War. It has a
