CL Flick: Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

CL: Mao’s Last Dancer (2010) will be shown at 7:30 pm in the Large Meeting Room. A delegation from Madame Mao’s Beijing Dance Academy selects 11-year old peasant villager Li Cunxin to study ballet in far-off Beijing, where he trains for seven grueling years to become one of China’s greatest dancers. His efforts win him the opportunity to dance in America, opening his eyes to a new love and the possibility of a dramatic defection from China in this remarkable true story based on Cunxin’s autobiography. Rated: PG. Running time: 1 hour 57 minutes.