If Herbert Ross wanted to prove that his commitment to ballet in The Turning Point was no mere whim, or that The Turning Point audience's commitment wasn't one either, he could not have contrived a severer test. A movie as torturously dull as this one would never be endured by triflers. Not even much in the way of dancing is offered as compensation to the committed, and what there is of it is heavy on torso shots and head shots, cutting off the legs. Alan Badel keeps trying to save the movie in a stock role as a homosexual quipster ("They don't make buttocks like that anymore," he sighs in admiration of a nude male statuette), but the vital signs remain nil. With Alan Bates as Diaghilev, George De La Pena as Nijinsky, and Leslie Browne as Romola. (1980) — Duncan Shepherd
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