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Title: Not the ballet!
Review: I bought this DVD because I have seen "Raymonda" and wanted to relive the experience. This NOT a presentation of the ballet. It is a series of interviews with people associated with the ballet (including Nureyev), but those interviews are all in French. You can turn on the subtitles, but they tend to go by quickly, so that's difficult to follow.Here's the funny thing - sometimes the person on-camera is speaking English, but there's an announcer translating their words to French. The subtitles are cearly retranslations back to English, because they rarely quote the original interviewee's words.If you only have passing interest in the performance, and if you want to practice hearing French, this DVD is for you. But from what I know, that's a small audience.
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