Posted on 15/10/04
Ballroom disaster
Shall We Dance?*½Directed by Peter ChelsomWritten by Audrey WellsStarring Richard Gere,Jennifer Lopez, Susan SarandonClassification: PGBet you've never heard this one before: Hollywood gets its greedy hands on a good foreign film, squeezes out every ounce of distinctive cinematic life, then resells it as a home-grown treat. As recently as seven years ago, Shall We Dance? was a wry and touching comedy perfectly at home in its Japanese setting. Now, forcibly deported to Chicago and peopled with American stars, the same story is huffed and puffed and squeezed into an entirely different cultural context. Guess what? Sayonara sushi, hello turkey.
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