"Voulez-vous danser avec moi" is really weird:it's not a comedy,but it looks like one sometimes,it's not a thriller ,but it looks like one sometimes.It includes murder,blackmail,transvestites ,a dancing school,an old "gothic" house,a dentist's office and a gay club ("le fétiche bleu"!!).PLus BB.The French Catholic Office of Cinema :thumbs down!I quote them: "showing such a tragedy as male homosexuality in a movie made for entertainment is intolerable!To avoid." But gays watching this movie have also good reasons to be infuriated .I'm not so sure that the 1960 audience leaving the theater did not heave a sigh of relief: " Those people are not like us.Look what they did here!"(remember what happened with "silence of the lambs" and " basic instinct") That said,the screenplay was written with care,BB acts naturally and she is a feast for the eye.She is given good support by Henri Vidal,the most handsome man of the era,singer Dario Moreno,Philippe Nicaud as a drag artist-singing Edith Piaf's "Mon Manège à Moi" - Georges Descrière and Maria Pacôme.
Review of Come Dance with Me!
