The task was not an easy one: making a movie that starts and ends in a ballroom for elders. Despite this big constraint, the movie achieves the target of depicting a parallel universe where elders can truly live the essence of life through a turmoil of emotions and feelings. There is no age for having fun, there is no age for love, for a flirt, for envy and defeat.
The director manages to lead the audience through a journey inside the emotions of a "Saturday night fever" in a normal spot for normal people. The result comes out of a collage of human situations were each situation, taken one by one, may not mean a lot but the overall picture is seizing.
Eventually, each character seems to live the night as if it were the life itself, without a tomorrow, without a life outside the ballroom. All it matters is dancing, and women that are not invited to dance suffer an unbearable defeat. The emotions in that ballroom are so simple and so breathtaking that next Saturday you will be more inclined to go out with your grandfather rather than with the people of you age.
I found that the final poetry that Eudes plays to Marici at the end of the movie means a within the movie. I think that, eventually, everybody is in love with life and living true emotions is the way to stay alive. To do that, people is ready to lie, to betray and to pretend. But what after the ball?
The director manages to lead the audience through a journey inside the emotions of a "Saturday night fever" in a normal spot for normal people. The result comes out of a collage of human situations were each situation, taken one by one, may not mean a lot but the overall picture is seizing.
Eventually, each character seems to live the night as if it were the life itself, without a tomorrow, without a life outside the ballroom. All it matters is dancing, and women that are not invited to dance suffer an unbearable defeat. The emotions in that ballroom are so simple and so breathtaking that next Saturday you will be more inclined to go out with your grandfather rather than with the people of you age.
I found that the final poetry that Eudes plays to Marici at the end of the movie means a within the movie. I think that, eventually, everybody is in love with life and living true emotions is the way to stay alive. To do that, people is ready to lie, to betray and to pretend. But what after the ball?