ISADORA is hard to evaluate, particularly since it exists in a truncated version mandated by the studio. Karel Reisz's original 3-hour version might have been a masterpiece for all I can tell. As it is, ISADORA is an interesting but flawed biopic. Isadora Duncan is at the center of it, a character both admirable for her dedication to her art and her willingness to defy convention, and irritating in her narcissism and histrionics. While Vanessa Redgrave is magnificent and the editing is stunning (there's an almost Proustian fluidity to the film's overall narrative structure as we jump back and forth in time), the emotional impact is a bit muted-- once again, is this because of missing footage from the earlier cut?