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Dance Film Festival · 2009

Dance Film Festival 2009

Musicals

Films to get your feet tapping.

Programme

5 films · 2 reviews

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Les Demoiselles De Rochefort (The Young Girls Of Rochefort)

Twin sisters looking for love fail to notice that a local poet and music shop owner are perfect for them.

(Country: France; Year: 1967; Director: Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda; Writer: Jacques Demy; Stars: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Riberolles, Grover Dale, Gene Kelly)

Gypsy

A biopic about the famous burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her domineering mother.

(Country: US; Year: 1962; Director: Mervyn le Roy; Writer: Arthur Laurents, based on the book by Gypsy Rose Lee.; Stars: Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace, Betty Bruce, Parley Baer, Morgan Brittany, Ann Jillian, Diane Pace) , Trailer

Om Shanti Om

The reincarnation of a murdered actor tries to solve his murder and find his lost love.

(Country: India; Year: 2007; Director: Farah Khan; Writer: Farah Khan; Stars: Shahrukh Khan, Arjun Rampal, Kirron Kher, Shreyas Talpade, Deepika Padukone, Bindu)

Perhaps Love (Ai Ru Guo, Ru Guo - Ai)

Review preview for Perhaps Love

Endlessly inventive and technically impressive.

Chris · 4.5 out of 5
Complex relationships develop between cast and crew members working on a musical.

(Country: China, Malaysia, Hong Kong; Year: 2005; Director: Peter Chan; Writer: Oi Wah Lam, Raymond To; Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhou Xun, Jackie Cheung, Jin-hee Ji, Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng Kwan Yue)

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Swing Time

Review preview for Swing Time

Rightly regarded as Fred and Ginger’s greatest movie together.

Chris · 5 out of 5
A gambler trying to win the money to marry his fiancee inadvertently falls for a dancer.

(Country: US; Year: 1936; Director: George Stevens; Writer: Howard Lindsay, Allan Scott; Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Georges Metaxa)

Full review See: Ginger Rogers' passion for fashion: an examination of the star's eye for dress and design , Profile of Ginger Rogers , The films of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire , Dance Film Festival introduction: celebrating dance in film