Score

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Score

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The theatre of sport is given full-blown operatic treatment in this National Film Unit classic. Footage from the French 1979 rugby tour of New Zealand is rendered in slow-motion and cut to a Tchaikovsky score. The result is an often glorious, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, paean to rugby. Balletic lineouts, driving tackles, and the dark mysteries of the ruck, make for a ballsy Swan Lake in the mud. It includes the Bastille Day French victory over the All Blacks. Directed by NFU stalwart Arthur Ev...

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Video

Date created

1980

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/score-1980

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rugby / all blacks / france / test match / eden park / classical music / tchaikovsky / ballet / music / experimental / sport / north auckland / injury / rugby union / marlborough / hawkes bay / wellington / southland / waikato / referee / boots / conversion / try / tackle / ruck / lineout / montage / slow-motion / slowmotion / slow motion / score / bastille day / 1979 / rugby tour / tour / french / mud / operatic / classic / new zealand national film unit / national film unit / nfu

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