Bolero: A Global Hit

A 2019 Documentary Film written and directed by Anne-Solen Douguet and Damien Cabrespines. English narration and English subtitles for the French parts.

A performance of Bolero is begun every 15 minutes. Ninety years after its creation, this documentary explores Ravel’s masterpiece through the artists from all sorts of disciplines who have taken it on. With them we want to reveal the richness and ambiguity of this seemingly simple work, which has become a major influence on modern music and “pop culture”, and to understand the driving forces behind its extraordinary story.