Desert Dancer (2015) Movie Critic Review

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Desert Dancer (2015) Movie Critic Review
Runtime:     98 min
Rating:     Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, some drug material and violence
Production:     CrossDay Productions Ltd.
Genres:     Biography, Drama
Country:     UK
Language:     English 
Director:      Richard Raymond
Stars:        Nazanin Boniadi, Freida Pinto, Marama Corlett


Desert Dancer (2015) Critic Review: Afshin Ghaffarian risks everything to start a dance company amidst his home country of Iran's politically volatile climate and the nation's ban on dancing.

IMDB By 5.3 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2403393

Desert Dancer Movie Review By MDBReviews 

 With Iran in the news, the timing of "Desert Dancer" couldn't be better. The genuine story of a young man who began an underground move troupe, regardless of moving being illegal in the Islamic republic, the film is additionally an amplified investigate how individuals live in Iran, and how they feel about it.

The human need for self-expression is at the heart of this film. What a strange thing, that as soon as you take away a people’s ability to express themselves, they suddenly have something to say. In the West, we can express ourselves all day long, but most of our art is trivial. But when people have to risk their lives to say something, all the force of their creativity lasers in on the essential.
Afshin Ghaffarian starts life as a dance natural, as if his mind and body were programmed for that destiny. As a child, he studies at an underground school, and when he goes to college in Tehran, he falls in with a group of like-minded students. According to “Desert Dancer,” there’s a public Iran, with morality-enforcing thugs harassing people into conformity. And then there is the private Iran of drinking, dancing and secret nightclubs.

For a hedonist with no higher ambition, the ability to blow off steam in a private club would be enough. But Afshin is an artist and, even more difficult, an artist whose art can’t really exist without the sounding board of an audience. He starts a clandestine dance company but very soon realizes that they will have nothing if they never get a chance to perform. On the other hand, if word gets out to the wrong people - and the wrong people are everywhere and have big ears * they could be imprisoned, tortured or killed.

In "Desert Dancer," we see the effect of things we underestimate, as when Afshin gets hold of an unblocked Internet server and turns upward different dance lovers on YouTube. YouTube, as a result, turns into his choreographer. The value of craftsmanship, what that correspondence crosswise over time and space implies in individuals' lives, is something we always remember while viewing "Desert Dancer." At one point, Afshin gets to be riveted by seeing high contrast dance footage of Rudolf Nureyev, and through Afshin, we encounter the same interest.

Freida Pinto co-stars as Elaheh, a gifted, troubled woman who joins Afshin’s company. Though the film is based on true events, one suspects that Elaheh is a creation of the screenplay. If so, screenwriter Jon Croker should be congratulated. Elaheh is the tortured soul of the country, the talented daughter of a ballerina whose career ended with the Islamic revolution. Pinto, whose roles have too often been antiseptic, is affecting as a woman whose passionate drive for life is matched by her impulse toward self-destruction.

Movies about people trying to start dance companies tend to be as formulaic as sports movies, but “Desert Dancer” escapes the usual drawbacks - corniness and bad dancing - by the urgency of the context. To watch it is to ask what you might do under similar circumstances. It’s to contemplate the tremendous fear at the core of government thugs everywhere, and it’s to wonder about Iran’s future.
In the end, it’s hard to know whether to see the Iran of “Desert Dancer” in optimistic or pessimistic terms. Young people, especially, want to be free, but the other side has all the power. Having YouTube on your side certainly helps, but an army and some tanks can come in handy, too.

At last, its difficult to know whether to see the Iran of "Desert Dancer" in idealistic or cynical terms. Youngsters, particularly, need to be free, yet the other side has all the force. Having YouTube on your side absolutely helps, however an armed force and a few tanks can prove to be useful, as well.


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