Does Clark really want to dance?
This film was supposed to have been here three months ago and we were eager to see how Richard Gere would pair up (couple?) with Jennifer Lopez
Film: Shall We Dance
Stars: Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez
Director: Peter Chelsom
Screenplay: Audrey Wells
Running time: 106 mins.
Rating: PG-13 for sexual references and brief language
Showing at: Cineplex, Garden City from today
Preview by: Kalungi Kabuye
This film was supposed to have been here three months ago and we were eager to see how Richard Gere would pair up (couple?) with Jennifer Lopez.
Would there be magic like when he paired up with Julia Roberts?
But, surprise, Shall We Dance is not exactly a love story, in that, even though it is obvious the Gere character would like to get it on with the Lopez girl, she is having none of it.
Gere plays John Clark, a bored lawyer, whose life is too straight for him.
He loves his wife and daughter, enjoys his job, but there is something missing.
One night, as he is on the train
home, he sees a beautiful woman standing in the window of Miss Mitzi’s Dance Studio.
There is something intriguing about her solitude, her pensive attitude and, of course, her figure.
Next day, he stops and signs up for dance classes. Is he interested in dancing? Questionable.
Is he interested in the woman, Paulina (Lopez)? Obviously. Is she interested in him? No: “I prefer not to socialise with students.â€
He starts taking dance lessons from her in order to get to know her better and as the joy of dancing enters his life, he discovers it might just be the secret to saving his troubled marriage.
As his skill as a dancer improves, he eventually signs up for the Chicago Crystal Ball dance competition.
The film begs the question – will Gere do a Julia Roberts on Lopez, convince the reluctant dance teacher to fall for him?
“Conventional as it may be, Shall We Dance? offers genuine delights. The fact that Paulina is uninterested in romance with John comes as sort of a relief, freeing the story to be about something other than the inexorable collision of their genitals,†Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times.
The warm performances give the film momentum, but writer Audrey Wells and director Peter Chelsom (who chops dance sequences clumsily) often stumble,†Lawrence Toppman, Charlotte Observer.
Stars: Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez
Director: Peter Chelsom
Screenplay: Audrey Wells
Running time: 106 mins.
Rating: PG-13 for sexual references and brief language
Showing at: Cineplex, Garden City from today
Preview by: Kalungi Kabuye
This film was supposed to have been here three months ago and we were eager to see how Richard Gere would pair up (couple?) with Jennifer Lopez.
Would there be magic like when he paired up with Julia Roberts?
But, surprise, Shall We Dance is not exactly a love story, in that, even though it is obvious the Gere character would like to get it on with the Lopez girl, she is having none of it.
Gere plays John Clark, a bored lawyer, whose life is too straight for him.
He loves his wife and daughter, enjoys his job, but there is something missing.
One night, as he is on the train
home, he sees a beautiful woman standing in the window of Miss Mitzi’s Dance Studio.
There is something intriguing about her solitude, her pensive attitude and, of course, her figure.
Next day, he stops and signs up for dance classes. Is he interested in dancing? Questionable.
Is he interested in the woman, Paulina (Lopez)? Obviously. Is she interested in him? No: “I prefer not to socialise with students.â€
He starts taking dance lessons from her in order to get to know her better and as the joy of dancing enters his life, he discovers it might just be the secret to saving his troubled marriage.
As his skill as a dancer improves, he eventually signs up for the Chicago Crystal Ball dance competition.
The film begs the question – will Gere do a Julia Roberts on Lopez, convince the reluctant dance teacher to fall for him?
“Conventional as it may be, Shall We Dance? offers genuine delights. The fact that Paulina is uninterested in romance with John comes as sort of a relief, freeing the story to be about something other than the inexorable collision of their genitals,†Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times.
The warm performances give the film momentum, but writer Audrey Wells and director Peter Chelsom (who chops dance sequences clumsily) often stumble,†Lawrence Toppman, Charlotte Observer.