Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueTHE ICE KING is the searing documentary of a lost cultural icon, a story of art, sport, sexuality, and rebellion. Including incredible unseen footage of some of his mort remarkable performan... Tout lireTHE ICE KING is the searing documentary of a lost cultural icon, a story of art, sport, sexuality, and rebellion. Including incredible unseen footage of some of his mort remarkable performances and with access to Curry's letters, archive interviews, and interviews with his family... Tout lireTHE ICE KING is the searing documentary of a lost cultural icon, a story of art, sport, sexuality, and rebellion. Including incredible unseen footage of some of his mort remarkable performances and with access to Curry's letters, archive interviews, and interviews with his family, friends and collaborators, this is a portrait of the man who turned ice-skating from a d... Tout lire
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John Curry was to ice figure skating what Bruce Lee was to Martial Art and, neither will ever be surpassed! It wasn't what these two men did but rather how they did it and therefore they can never be equaled.
A very touching (but also very sad) documentary and I hope he found his peace in the oneness of the afterlife.
A picture is painted here of a lonely, restless man, unable it seems to find lasting love in any personal relationship. Drawn to New York it seems as much for its openly gay scene as well as being a cultural hub, it was his misfortune to contract AIDS as the epidemic took hold there and he returned to England to die in his mother's care, aged only 44, penniless and alone.
He was clearly a turbulent individual, obsessed with perfectionism in his chosen profession but incapable of committing and settling down with one partner in his personal life. There is a fair bit of pretentious twaddle spoken here about his lofty artistic aims and how he lived out his inner turmoil when performing on the ice. In interviews, he comes across as shy but brittle.
There's no question however that he took professional ice-skating to a different level and I would imagine that even as he drew towards his own end, as we see in the photographs of his emaciated state taken just before his too-early death, he hopefully took some kind of comfort from his achievements both as an amateur and professional skater.
It seems that Curry was too much of a non-conformist to adapt to his celebrity and become the money-spinning national treasures that his successors Robin Cousins and Torvill and Dean did. I guess it's often the way of trailblazers that they suffer the slings and arrows so that their followers can pass through in relative ease.
While I was surprised not to see contributions from Cousins, Torvill and Dean, even if only to acknowledge their own debt to Curry, this documentary brought to life an undeservedly forgotten figure who deserves this belated, sympathetic but honest recognition of not only the achievements in his professional life but also the travails of his difficult personal life.
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- AnecdotesThe Blue Danube sequence that forms the climax had never been shown before it was included in this film. It came courtesy of Nathan Birch, the choreographer.
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- Budget
- 400 000 £GB (estimé)
- Montant brut mondial
- 19 743 $US
- Durée1 heure 29 minutes
- Couleur