
Why Jack McMillan (Luke Kirby) refuses to eliminate paper programs before each performance at the Metropolitan Ballet Theater? Maybe because a child, the son of the main clients, would be wandering behind the stage collecting signatures of dancers he admired. Today, Jack struggles to deal with budget cuts and negative criticism that affects his company, a little veiled reference to the American Ballet Theater in New York. On the other side of the Atlantic, the Covid-19 Pandemia, the lack of motivation of the dancers, as well as the decrease in the public threaten the mandate of Gineviève (Charlotte Gainsbourg) in the national ballet helmet, a fictional counterpart of the ballet of the Paris opera.
But Gineviève, who had a letter with the jacket in the past, has a suggestion for him: why not exchange some stars between the two companies to add some new blood and arouse the public interest? Crispin Shamblee (Simon Callow), the problematic pattern of the Metropolitan Ballet Theater, Eagly supports the idea, seeing it as an opportunity to recruit Cheyenne Toussaint (Lou de laâge), a temperamental star of the national ballet.
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