The Dancer Upstairs Page #17

Synopsis: The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda--his daughter's soulfully beautiful ballet teacher--a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm's eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer's truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary's cause and the detective's peace.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): John Malkovich
Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
64%
R
Year:
2002
132 min
£2,400,000
Website
205 Views


It is a reflective tune...

...and some time in your life...

... you will have occasion to say, What is this thing called time?

You know, what is that?

The clock.

You go to work by the clock...

... you get your martini in the afternoon by the clock...

...and you get your coffee by the clock...

...and you have to get on the plane at

a certain time, arrive at a certain...

And it goes on and on and on.

And time is a dictator, as we know.

- Where does it go?

- Laura Rejas?

What does it do? Most of all, is it alive?

Is it a thing that we cannot touch? And is it alive?

And then one day you look in the mirror.

- Brought your own music?

- ""How old. ""

And you say, Where did the time go?

We'll leave you with that one.

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Nicholas Shakespeare

Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare FRSL (born 3 March 1957) is a British novelist and biographer, described by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the best English novelists of our time". more…

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