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Throughout his extraordinary career, Altman has surprised, entertained and challenged audiences around the world with vibrant, freewheeling films that stretch the boundaries of the medium. With The Company, this iconic director brings his signature ensemble and improvisatory style, and his fluid, masterful camera-work to the world of dance. Altman's vision for the film is an extremely intimate one: we will see the difficult daily work of practice and rehearsal, the decidedly unglamorous living situations, the enormous pressures of performance, the richly textured behaviors of the dancers - whose professional and personal lives grow impossibly close - and of course the sheer beauty of the dances; exhilarating, kinetic, and thrillingly observed....
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