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The Dancer Upstairs
Director John Malkovich
Spain/USA 2002
107 minutes
Malkovich’s first film is a triumphant and terrifically stylish exercise in film making. He has translated Nicholas Shakespeare’s novel about Latin American terrorism to the screen – the screenplay is Shakespeare’s own – and the result is a political thriller that really thrills.
The story of Detective Augustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world forms the basis of John Malkovich’s directorial debut. This is a complex story about an honest man caught in a world of intrigue, power and possession.
