Creature review: Human nature is key to a sci-fi ballet

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The ballet Creature, adapted for film, worries astir however we dainty different primates, but its subtleties are overwhelmed by elemental moralising and a metaphor that doesn’t work. The dancing is superb, though

By Simon Ings

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5 March 2023

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Jeffrey Cirio arsenic the Creature, successful a inactive from Asif Kapadia’s movie adaptation of the ballet Creature.

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Asif Kapadia

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In an isolated probe station, mislaid amid snowfall and ice, a highly disciplined squad of would-be astronauts is putting an experimental carnal done its paces. Will the Creature (deliberately near ambiguous truthful arsenic not to spoil things) past the tests thrown astatine it: the cold, the isolation, the asphyxia?

This is simply a science-fiction ballet (adapted for film) loosely based connected 19th-century dramatist Georg …

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