Review of Falling for a Dancer (1998) by Chris D — 14 Oct 2009
This film is beautiful, interesting and very moving.
The story of a young girl that gets pregnant by an actor in a travelling theatrical company and is married off to a 40 year old widower to avoid scandal.
The 3 hours grant enough time for the story to unfold itself without hurry. Characters have time to be developed properly. The landscape has time to grow on you.
All the actors really deserve praise for this. Especially Liam Cunningham and Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh. Eleanor Methven should be mentioned too.
Although this film is now sold as a Colin Farrell vehicle, his role is really very small - although certainly one of his best.
I give this movie 10/10 and really cannot understand why it is that underrated here.
This review of Falling for a Dancer (1998) was written by Chris D on 14 Oct 2009.
Falling for a Dancer has generally received positive reviews.
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