Dance with Me

2016 [RUSSIAN]

Action / Romance

3
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 92 92
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926.68 MB
1280*694
Russian 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
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1.68 GB
1920*1040
Russian 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds ...

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Reviewed by OldieMovieFan 9 / 10

Hall of Mirrors

When do dreams become reality? When does reality become dreams?The layers of this film are hidden under a top layer, a patina, that appears to be a simple fantasy of 'making it' as a movie star.The picture can surely be watched at that simple level, and it surely works at that simple level; the brilliant dancing alone makes this film worth watching. The music has none of the compositional skill displayed in older musicals - "Alexander's Ragtime Band" or "Roberta" from the 1930s, some of Grable and Monroe's musicals from the 1940s & 1950s - and that fact immediately removes much of the expressiveness of the dances. Rogers and Astaire and Ann Miller and Kelly, would not have been able to show their abilities to the fullest without the contrapuntal splendor of the music they danced to. The still older form of ballet also has this ability to impress and to move. None of that depth here. Still, the music here has the sort of raw power that only amplified music can offer and that power is shown to fullest in the leaping dance routines. It's fascinating to watch the juxtaposition of ballet steps with the brutal simplicity of breakdance.There is another layer - the personal politics of the stage mother and the studio, the interplay of the characters - and the picture can surely be watched again, solely for the maneuvering for stardom.But it is the dreams of the director that are the biggest theme of "Dance With Me." The memories that he tries to turn into reality, the reality that he tries to turn into art, the art into reality... this is the deeper emotional layer here. He merges his dreams and his memories into a film that is also, in a way, a documentary or a reality tv show, recorded on the fly and blasted out with the speed of social media. The idea that dreams can become reality is nothing new; Rogers explored these ideas fully across a whole series of films, from 1938's "Carefree," to 1944's "Lady in the Dark." 1947's "It Had to Be You" is a film, like this one, where dreams and memories and reality merge into a single brilliant point of light that bounces and glances about until the viewer is left turning in all directions, as if in a hall of mirrors.
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