Margot (2009)

Recommended

UK

Television Film

Series Title: Women We Loved (2009)

Director: Otto Bathurst

Writers: Amanda Coe, Meredith Daneman

Cinematographer: Florian Hoffmeister

Cast: Anne-Marie Duff, Michiel Huisman, Con O'Neill, Derek Jacobi, Lindsay Duncan, Penelope Wilton

Filmed as part of the BBC’s Women We Loved season, this visually arresting, deftly acted portrait of the famed ballerina, Margot Fonteyn – depicting her failing relationship with her wannabe revolutionary husband Tito Arias and her brief, passionate affair with Rudi Nureyev, who was half her age – proves to be a thoroughly entertaining work, and perhaps the most interesting of the trio of BBC4 films. Iain.Stott