Movie: The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
- Director: John Malkovich
- Release Date: 20 September 2002 (Spain)
- Writers: Nicholas Shakespeare (novel) Nicholas Shakespeare (screenplay)
- Run Time: 132 min
- Country: Spain , USA
- Genre: Drama , Thriller , Crime
- MPAA: Rated R for strong violence, and for language.
Tagline: An honest man caught in a world of intrigue, power and passion.
Trivia: In the beginning of the film, one of the revolutionaries tells a checkpoint security guard that his dead dog’s name is Tupac. Tupac Amaru was the last indigenous leader of the Inca people in Peru and Tupac Amaru II was the leader of the 1780s uprising in colonial day Cusco, Peru. (The late hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur is named after the latter).
Goofs: Continuity: In the garbage scene, soon after the Marxism book is mentioned, the female cop changes positions in between shots.
“The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda–his daughter’s soulfully beautiful ballet teacher–a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm’s eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer’s truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary’s cause and the detective’s peace. Written by Sujit R. Varma”
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