- Only When I Dance
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Only When I Dance Directed by Beadie Finzi Starring Irlan Santos da Silva
Isabela CoracyMusic by Stephen Hilton Editing by Alan Levy
Felipe LacerdaRelease date(s) 2009 Running time 78 min. Country Brazil
UKLanguage Portuguese Only When I Dance is a 2009 documentary film directed by Beadie Finzi.
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Synopsis
Only When I Dance tells the story of two teenagers, Irlan and Isabela, who pursue their dreams of becoming professional ballet dancers as a way to escape the violent slums of Rio de Janeiro.
Release
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2009. It was subsequently shown at several other major film festivals, including the Edinburgh International Film Festival,[1] the San Francisco International DocFest, the Latino Film Festival and Sheffield Doc/Fest. It was broadcast on television in the United Kingdom on Christmas Day 2009.
Production
The producers spent over three years trying to find the candidates to be filmed, and the film took around ten months to film.
Reception
The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, with The Guardian awarding it four out of five stars and calling it a "moving, if rather shallow documentary".[2][3] The website Eye for Film awarded the film three and a half out of five stars, saying the film "shows how an artistic calling can be imbued with life-and-death determination."[4]
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Categories:- 2009 films
- Documentary films about dance
- Films set in Rio de Janeiro
- British documentary films
- Portuguese-language films
- English-language films
- 2000s documentary films
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