| The Dancer Upstairs | 
 enlarge | Actors: Montserrat Astudillo, Javier Bardem, Marie-anne Berganza, Juan Diego Botto, Luis Miguel Cintra
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 15680
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 132
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2008829D
UPC: 024543088295
EAN: 0024543088295
ASIN: B0000AGQ5V
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: September 23, 2003
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Product Description
A police detective in a south american country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 02/07/2006 Starring: Javier Bardem Juan Diego Botto Run time: 113 minutes Rating: R Director: John Malkovich
Amazon.com
Marking an assured directorial debut for actor John Malkovich, The Dancer Upstairs is a tense, nerve-jangling political thriller that values adult storytelling and emotional depth over cheap thrills. It's a challenge for those accustomed to the frantic pace of Hollywood thrillers, but attentive viewers will be richly rewarded by Malkovich's slow-burn approach to the film's terrorist plot, adapted by Nicholas Shakespeare from his own novel, based on the "Shining Path" movement that terrorized Peru in the 1980s. The plot unfolds in an unnamed Latin American capital, where a lawyer-turned-police detective named Rejas (Javier Bardem) leads an investigation to locate Ezequiel, a terrorist whose followers have left a trail of fear, death and destruction across the city. Rejas falls in love with his daughter's ballet teacher (Laura Morante), but the film's ultimate revelation--a coincidence that Malkovich handles with credible delicacy--throws this simmering drama into stark relief, bringing Bardem's character (and his subtle performance) to a greater awareness of his own personal and political humanity. --Jeff Shannon
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 Malkovich being Malkovich March 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Whether he is in front of the screen or behind the screen, John Malkovich is my guy!
 Dissapointing February 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was disappointed by this movie. Although it has Laura Morante and Javier Bardem in it, and their acting is well done, the movie itself lacks so many things it I couldn't wait for it to be over. The film is slow, tedious and somewhat boring. Also, the plot is a bit confused and convoluted. The film fails to draw the viewer in and fails to tie many many things together. Several things are never explained which left me feeling confused and unable to better appreciate this movie. I just didn't like it much.
Really surprised at how terribly boring this film was ,especially with Bardem! January 11, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Javier Bardem is one of my favorite actors, but coupled with the flat affect personality and sensibility of John Malkovich, THE DANCER UPSTAIRS was 135 minutes of blah,blah,blah.It shouldn't have been.This film was based on the real life events that terrorized the country of Peru back in the 1980's! What we got was a film as dead and lifeless as Malkovich's eyes and speech.This film,which has a very steamy cover to it with "An Intense Thriller" written at the bottom went no where very slowly.In the commentary, Malkovich says that he wanted to use actors who"have English as their second language".WHY John? I would have preferred that this Latin American political piece be done in original language with subtitles.But then, Italian actress Laura Morante would have had to learn another language.Even Bardem did not seem to me totally comfortable inhabiting the role of Officer Rejas,even as fluent in English as he is.
A friend from Peru explained to me what really happened during that time and all of the characters involved.That was more exciting than Malkovich's film.A COMPLETE PASS on this one!
Masterpiece November 16, 2007
This is a brilliant work of art. A wonderful, thoughtful, and tense story with great depth especially from Bardem. The under-stated tone makes it so much more powerful. Magnificent. Don Lessnau, Redford, MI
one of my top 5 movies of all time October 16, 2007
it does not get any better than this if you are an adult movie goer.
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