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Title: Nice but too contrived
Review: I recently saw First Position in a theater and came away with mixed feelings. It has its lovely, uplifting moments, and is as good a documentary as can be found on a ballet competition. (This documents the saga of several competitors as they prepare for and compete in the annual Youth America Grand Prix.) Some of the photography is stunning. However, watch with a few grains of salt, as a lot of the 'plot' is contrived. For example, the documentary presents young Aran Bell as just one of the 100s of dancers in a competition when, in fact, the lad won the grand prize the year BEFORE this film was made. Also, we are not told what the ballet world knew months ago, before the film aired: that the film's director has long been a personal acquaintance of the Youth America Grand Prix founders and owners. So there is more than a heaping dose of 'phony' here. It's a shame that the film-makers didn't just let nature take its course.
