At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
Mao’s Last Dancer has generally received positive reviews.
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Mao’s Last Dancer was released in 2009 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 319 reviews, giving Mao’s Last Dancer (2009) an average rating of 64%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 76%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 63%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Mao’s Last Dancer than critics were.
With a score of 64%, Mao’s Last Dancer is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2009, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2009 with similar scores include films like The Proposal, Where the Wild Things Are and District 13: Ultimatum.
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