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| Directed by | Ettore Scola |
| Produced by | Franco Committeri |
| Written by | Jean-Claude Penchenat Ruggero Maccari Furio Scarpelli Ettore Scola |
| Music by | Vladimir Cosma |
| Cinematography | Ricardo Aronovich |
| Edited by | Raimondo Crociani |
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Films A2 Massfilm O.N.C.I.C. Ministère de la Culture de la Republique Française |
| Distributed by | AMLF (France) Almi Classics (USA) L.C.J. Editions & Productions (Worldwide) |
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110 minutes |
| Country | Italy France Algeria |
| Language | No dialogue |
Le bal (Italian: Ballando ballando, French pronunciation: [lə bal], meaning "The ball") is a 1983 Italian-Franco-Algerian film without dialogue directed by Ettore Scola that represents a fifty-year story of French society by way of a ballroom in France.
Vincent Canby from The New York Times gave the film a very good review, stating: "Because Le Bal is a spectacle, most of the performers unfortunately remain anonymous, though their contributions are enormous. The film has been choreographed as much as directed in any conventional sense, but the physical production is outstanding. In the 1936 sequence, Mr. Scola and his cameraman, Ricardo Aronovich, miraculously drain virtually all the color from the images to create a look that suggests hand-tinted photographs that have begun to fade. More than anything else, these exemplfy the mood of the entire film."
On Rotten Tomatoes, "Le Bal" currently holds 89% of audience aprovation.
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