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Duo is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Norman McLaren
Duo (1968)
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Add to a movie listPas de deux is a 1968 short dance film by Norman McLaren, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
The film was photographed on High Contrast stock, with optical, step-and-repeat printing, for a sensuous and almost stroboscopic appearance. It shows a ballerina (Margaret Mercier) dancing by herself (or rather, with images of herself), before being joined by a male dancer (Vincent Warren), to perform the pas de deux of the title.
The film is choreographed to Romanian pan pipe music.
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