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# The Dancer Upstairs

**Brand:** montserrat astudillojavier bardemjohn malkovich
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As a Latin American nation nears collapse under a highly organized terrorist movement, idealistic policeman Agustin Rejas faces the greatest challenge of his career: to catch the mysterious guerilla leader Ezequiel who is as elusive as Rejas' superiors are corrupt. As the terrorist attacks, and the military response, become more and more ferocious, mass panic sets in and Rejas' finds himself drawn to Yolanda, his daughter's ballet teacher, who offers solace from the chaos. But as his search comes ever nearer to Ezequiel, he and the dancer he loves will be forced to choose between love, country and self.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The Hunt for Abimael Guzman in a cinematographic masterpiece!
  

*by D***A on Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2014*

This magnificent film, starring the Spanish actor Javier Bardem, is simply an unexpectedly enchanting odyssey in cinema — despite the ever looming threat of violence in the revolutionary background of Latin America. This a tour de force performance both for Bardem, as the main protagonist, and for John Malkovich for his impressive Directorial Debut. What a marvelous accomplishment for them both! The film is carefully sculpted from the novel of the same name by Nicholas Shakespeare, a British writer caught in Peru at the time of the explosion of terrorism and violence brought about by the Shining Path guerrillas in the 1980s. Shakespeare, not only  lived through the madness but also actively sought the guerrillas themselves to understand their aims. Well deserving of his labors, he ended up writing the historic novel on his perilous experience, as well as penning the screenplay for this suspenseful movie. All of this is explained in the extra documentaries in the DVD. And never was this background documentary material most welcome by an audience!The film is based on the sanguinary career of "Comrade Gonzalo," the terrorist Professor of Philosophy, Abimael Guzman, who formed and led the Shining Path (Sendero Luminosa) Maoist guerrilla, one of the most sanguinary and notoriously violent terrorist groups, ever to seek anarchy and revolution through terror in Latin American history. The Shining Path indiscriminately killed public officials, as well as civilians in the town and native Peruvian Indians in rural areas. These poor Indians in remote areas only desired to be left alone, to till the soil and harvest their fields, refusing to join Gonzalo's (in the movie he is called "El Presidente Ezequiel") band of terrorists. Their aim was anarchy and violent revolution in the style of Mao Tse-tung, and they came close to winning, that is until President Alberto Fujimori (who is not in the film)empowered the military and appointed an investigative task force that sought and eventually found Gonzalo. The terrorist was hiding in the upstair apartment of a ballet dance teacher (who in real life was a communist agent trained in Cuba). The lawyer-turned policeman, Agustin Rejas (played by Bardem) doggedly pursuits Ezequiel but then falls in love with the dancer. He is torn between his duty to his country and his secret love for the ballet dancer he wants to believe is innocent. The movie even recreates the famous photograph of Abimael Guzman after his capture in his striped black and white prisoner outfit uniform secured in his cage as a wild man, being presented to the public and the media, held up in a crane presumably for his voyage to a high security prison (Sept. 24, 1992).This is not a fast paced thriller, as American audiences are wont to watch, but a thoughtfully artistic film, thoroughly suspenseful by its own intrinsic pace, a pace carefully crafted by Malkovich to be savored slowly with gusto and finesse to the very end. This film is highly recommended with a 5 stars rating.The reviewer Dr. Miguel Faria is a medical historian, and an Associate Editor in Chief and World Affairs Editor of Surgical Neurology International (SNI). He is the author of Cuba in Revolution -- Escape From a Lost Paradise (2002), and numerous articles on political history, including "Stalin's Mysterious Death" (2011); "Stalin, Communists and Fatal Statistics" (2011); "the Political Spectrum -- From the Extreme Right and Anarchism to the Extreme Left and Communism" (2011)

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Makes /State of Siege/ Look A Whole Lot Better
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2021*

This is a film about a left-wing insurgency against a right-wing South American government.The protagonist is a police detective who detects a pattern suggesting that an undeclared insurgency exists, and is tasked with finding its leader.Unfortunately, the government cannot leave well enough alone, but constantly interferes by declaring Martial Law and having the military immediately seize anything he discovers.The film itself uses English for the Spanish parts; unfortunately, rather a lot of it is in Quechua with no subtitles. Whether this is an artistic decision, or whether there were subtitles in the Spanish version (if there was one) but not the English version, or whether subtitles were supposed to be present but were somehow omitted, is unknown. What /is/ known is that it makes the film harder to follow than it otherwise would be.There also isn't a whole lot of suspense.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Closed Caption Issue
  

*by G***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2021*

Selecting closed caption for English language for the hard of hearing worked just fine.  But closed caption in Spanish when Spanish is spoken doesn't translate well for non-speaker of the Spanish language.  And no caption at all for an unknown local language spoken during the movie is just plain stupid.  The viewers missed a great deal of dialog when English translation of foreign languages was not used to appreciate the full impact of the movie's theme & purpose. And hand written notes not translated to English also detracted from a better appreciation of the movie.  But most of all, I rented the movie expecting all the above to not be an issue, given the fact closed caption & translation of foreign dialog for American audiences can be a great help in appreciating and enjoying the full import of a movie by the paying customer.

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