Deception and horror

Rating: 2/10 (20 May 2015)

It is good to find disenchanted Reviews, as well as enthusiastic ones. I would only add my disgust at the portrayal of the conduct of the ballet-master", and the ugly image of the world of ballet with which we are presented.
We may watch the film in order to be scared, and admire the way revulsion is generated: gratuitous blood-flow and vampiric injuries, retching and vomiting (plus drug-consumption and its immediate uncivilised effects). But the whole is a very distasteful glimpse of how such a leading company and its stars are managed, by the director: vulgar, crude, "wily and twisted", as DonFishies described him, in his enthusiastic Review.
The film may be acclaimed as "Sensational", but it is certainly a revolting picture, seeking and projecting a sick vision of art.