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The ballet Creature, adapted for film, worries about how we treat other primates, but its subtleties are overwhelmed by simple moralising and a metaphor that doesn’t work. The dancing is superb, though
By Simon Ings
5 March 2023
Jeffrey Cirio as the Creature, in a still from Asif Kapadia’s film adaptation of the ballet Creature.
Courtesy BFI Distribution and English National Ballet
Asif Kapadia
On limited release in the UK and Ireland
In an isolated research station, lost amid snow and ice, a highly disciplined team of would-be astronauts is putting an experimental animal through its paces. Will the Creature (deliberately left ambiguous so as not to spoil things) survive the tests thrown at it: the cold, the isolation, the asphyxia?
This is a science-fiction ballet (adapted for film) loosely based on 19th-century dramatist Georg …
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