Bob Fosse’s magnum opus, stunning in its very concept, as well as its choreography, music and dancing, is a tragicomic autobiography told in the form of an extraordinary musical. The Felliniesque vision of a work-obsessed artist whose life is on a breakneck course towards disaster. With chilling authenticity, the protagonist’s fate presaged the director’s own death. A groundbreaking work with uncommon visual appeal, it blazed a meaningful trail beyond the conventional boundaries of genre. Fosse weds his idée fixe – a talented artist’s existential ambitions in the midst of mass culture – with the form of a musical, making for an exceptionally natural combination, a singular musical counterpart to Citizen Kane or 8 1/2. A spellbinding portrayal of an artist devoted to his work and eye-to-eye with his own physical ruination. The film tied for the Palme d’Or at Cannes with Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha and won four Oscars. “Bob Fosse’s drama about a choreographer who dedicated – and sacrificed – his life to dance.” Milan Lasica