Boléro

Boléro (2024) is a period drama you can watch online on iFILM. Anne Fontaine's film traces the strange birth of one piece of music — the fifteen relentless minutes the whole world now dances to.

Dancer Ida Rubinstein hands Maurice Ravel a commission for her next ballet and asks for something sensual, like nothing before it. The composer has nothing. To find that slow, swelling theme, he has to walk back through old loves, sleepless Paris in the 1920s, and his own doubt. Raphaël Personnaz plays Ravel as a guarded man whose every storm stays under the surface; Doria Tillier, Jeanne Balibar and Emmanuelle Devos circle around him. What makes it worth your time is that it refuses to reduce a genius to a list of dates — it asks what obsession and wreckage one melody can grow from. Stream Boléro (2024) online on iFILM.