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...cruel for sympathy. If the film sides with anyone, it is with people like Rejas, who defines his duties narrowly, who insists on living a life free of ideological imperatives and who solves the terrible case assigned to him without spilling any additional blood. You could perhaps say The Dancer Upstairs is passionately evolutionary rather than revolutionary in its politics. In a time like ours, when so many are braying their political certainties, that may make this musing, generally antidramatic movie a tough sell. But don't be misled by the balance, reason and quietness of its tone...
...ideas seem to overtake him, even as his bosses press him for quick solutions. It's the same with the largest invention imposed by screenwriter Nicholas Shakespeare, adapting his own novel, on his historical material. That's the connection that begins to develop between Rejas and Yolanda, the eponymous dancer upstairs (played by the heartbreakingly beautiful Laura Morante). She is his daughter's dance teacher, and while picking up his daughter after lessons, he begins to sense something wistful and possibly yearning in Yolanda, something that contrasts seductively with the brisk, bourgeois nature of his wife. It's all very...
Rejas' methods are patient and plodding and based on those actually used to peacefully apprehend Abimael Guzman, leader of Peru's Shining Path movement a decade ago. The Dancer Upstairs is also, in its way, patient and plodding--but as realized by John Malkovich, in his directorial debut, utterly absorbing. It is really quite wonderful, in the age of hyperkinetic thrillers, to encounter a movie that takes the time to record the play of thought and emotion in its characters, to let their conflicts develop in a natural and unforced...
...Killed. Sam (Mosquito) Bockarie, 40, West African warlord, former hairdresser and champion disco dancer; in a shootout with Liberian soldiers; near the Ivory Coast-Liberia border. A native of Sierra Leone, Bockarie was one of the most feared guerrilla fighters to emerge from the overlapping civil uprisings in West Africa. In March, a U.N.-backed special court investigating atrocities in Sierra Leone indicted Bockarie for crimes against humanity. In a 1999 interview with a wire service, he admitted, "I cannot tell how many people I have killed...
...anything but. Choreographed by Ryuji Yamaguchi ’03, “Silence” was accompanied by Autechre’s “Corc” and was the only work to elicit laughter from the audience. The piece began in silence with a single dancer slithering slowly up the stage. Other dancers subsequently approached and nearly sat on her, pushing her out of the way again and again. It was then revealed that two of the four dancers, one male and one female, were blindfolded. When they paired off with the other two without blindfolds...