Just in time for the 2024 Olympics, BALESTRA had its premiere in select theaters. Coming to CRAVE soon.
"Balestra, a paranoiac thriller set in the world of competitive fencing, combines the raw athletic power of Raging Bull with the operatic tragedy of Black Swan, accented by the sci-fi of Under the Skin.” - THE GLOBE AND MAIL
"With this in mind, the most impressive thing about “Balestra” is its constant and palpable sense of pressurization: despite running more than two hours, it retains a patient, coiled intensity from start to finish.The film is a marriage of clever, layered screenwriting (the script is by Imran Zaidi) and rock-solid directorial craft: working in a clean, precise style far removed from the hardscrabble realism that defines so much of contemporary Canadian cinema, Dorsey has crafted a movie of unnervingly frictionless surfaces belying murky depths." - TORONTO STAR
