BOLERO Biopic on Ravel and the struggle to deliver his masterpiece. "Elegant and absorbing" Noosa Sun Matinee

Name: BOLERO Biopic on Ravel and the struggle to deliver his masterpiece. "Elegant and absorbing" Noosa Sun Matinee
Start: 2025-06-22T14:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-06-22T16:35:00+10:00
Location: Noosa Heads

Sun, 22 June

Noosa Heads

Maurice Ravel's life, before and after the debut of Bolero, is delivered handsomely in this rewarding biopic of the famous French composer who worried his most famous composition 'wasn't music' Commissioned to write a score that is 'carnal' and erotic' he struggles to deliver.

BOLERO Biopic on Ravel and the struggle to deliver his masterpiece. "Elegant and absorbing" Noosa Sun Matinee

Time & Location

22 June 2025, 2:30 pm – 4:35 pm

Noosa Heads, 29 Sunshine Beach Rd, Noosa Heads QLD 4567, Australia

About the Event

BOLERO film trailer HERE

M. 121 min

Directed and written by Anne Fontaine Starring Raphael Personnaz, Marguerite Long, Vincent Perez and Dora Tillier.

Renowned composer Maurice Ravel (Raphaël Personnaz) is haunted by self-doubt when commissioned by eccentric and magnanimous Russian dancer Ida Rubenstein (César-winning Jeanne Balibar) to compose a carnal, rapturous fanfare for her latest ballet.

Blocked creatively and cast aside by his peers, Ravel turns to his closest friends for inspiration – pianist Marguerite Long (Emmanuelle Devos, Masquerade), his friend Cipa (Vincent Perez) and Cipa's sister Misia (Doria Tillier), whom he hopelessly adores.

Set against the decadent, industrialised Paris of the 1920s, "Bolero" demands that Ravel draw on the essence of sound itself to redeem his raw genius, or risk being consumed by it completely.