I believe it was a French documentary, the man was rather large. He was mentally ill and formally a ballet dancer. Lived in extremely messy apartment and I think the premise of the film was his impending eviction? Featured interviews from his neighbors. A quote from him in the movie was “ la vie a sa propre validité, mais il faut faire un effort”. Believe I watched it on Netflix around 2012-15, been looking for it for a couple years now so any suggestions are appreciated. Even though I don’t remember very much it was important to me, thank you
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Was the dancer russian? It could be Rudolf Nureyev:
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Are you certain the documentary was in french? It could have been “Dancer” about Sergei Polunin:
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I think it is “the believer”https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0247199/
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Reminds me of Quebranto (2013). I was watching it the other day; foreign documentary, the guy is an ex-dancer/actor, living in poverty…
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