Rise

Rise (En corps, 2022) is a French dance drama from Cédric Klapisch you can watch online on iFILM. Elise is a rising ballet star — sold-out houses, glowing reviews — until one night pulls the whole thing apart.

She catches her boyfriend with another dancer backstage, then blows out her ankle mid-performance, and classical ballet is suddenly off the table for good. The injury heals slower than the betrayal. Drifting to a seaside residency, she falls in with a contemporary troupe and slowly relearns how to trust her own body. Marion Barbeau, a genuine étoile of the Paris Opera, plays the lead, so the dancing isn't acted — it's really danced.

Klapisch cares less about the fall than about how a body finds a new way to speak, with choreography by Hofesh Shechter driving the film's second half. A warm, unhurried watch for anyone who needs the reminder that starting over isn't the same as losing. Stream Rise (2022) online on iFILM.