Margot (2009)
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Directed by Otto Bathurst. With Anne-Marie Duff, Penelope Wilton, Con O'Neill, Lindsay Duncan. At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ...