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Genres:
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Drama /
Thriller /
Crime
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Director:
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John Malkovich
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Actors:
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Oliver Cotton,
Juan Diego Botto,
Luís Miguel Cintra,
Javier Manrique,
Elvira Mínguez,
Alexandra Lencastre,
Marie-Anne Berganza,
Lucas Rodríguez,
Xabier Elorriaga,
Wolframio Sinué,
Ramiro Jiménez,
Javier Bardem,
Laura Morante,
Abel Folk,
Natalia Dicenta
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Duration:
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128 min.
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Rating:
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(6.9/10)105.5
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Plot Summary:
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The curriculum vitae of Detective Agustin Rejas, a the human race clinging to the hope of an unimaginable love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the tyrannized masses to connect in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds serve in the army continue in his sense of self-politeness and the prize that his daughter and wife pull off him. Then he meets Yolanda--his daughter's soulfully incomparable ballet teacher--a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is dec... orous and all that is deprave in their troubled territory. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the explosion, may in actuality be the storm's eye. Last analysis, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes wide hunter and hunted alike, the dancer's fact wishes prove as elusive as the anarchist's belief and the detective's peace.
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I'm being unfair
I am one of the huge legions who admire JM but being an outstanding actor doesn’t guarantee competence as a director. Now, I know I’m being unfair on The Dancer Upstairs because I can’t have seen more than half an hour of it before switching off and condemning it as empty and pretentious.
I plink particularly plink disliked the plink plink music, used to build up plink plink tension and why were all the dialogues muffled? Perhaps that is what the world sounds like with your head up your plink plink bottom.
Intelligent film
The dancer upstairs is low key but highly intelligent look at Latin American terrorist movements like the Maoist Sendero Luminoso in Peru. Malkovich looks at the personal lives of individuals caught up in or affected by the violent philosophies of a charismatic leader. Such a treatment of the story makes for a subtle but strong film. Javier Bardim is quite likeable as the decent lawman trying to capture a vicious terrorist, while in the employ of a regime that is itself corrupt, violent and ironically deserving of destruction. The film was done in English by Latin American actors. This makes for a very authentic and well textured film, but the accents are sometimes a bit difficult. The film is well worth viewing though.
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