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Shadow Dancer (2013)

May. 31,2013
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Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.

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Platicsco
2013/05/31

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

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XoWizIama
2013/06/01

Excellent adaptation.

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Fatma Suarez
2013/06/02

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Logan
2013/06/03

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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justincward
2013/06/04

Clive Owen is an MI5 stooge who instantly turns a Belfast bomb-dropper-offer woman into an informer, in spite of saying, 'This is going to take some time'. And yes, we get it: Belfast in the troubles (which aren't over btw) is as bleak as it gets. Those IRA guys just want everyone to be as miserable as they are, it seems.Now, introduce hundreds of indistinguishable miserable characters without names or any particular reason to exist other than it's a 'political' film, yeah? A few vignettes of IRA funerals and suchlike, just to lighten the mood. Forget to show the heroine for half an hour, and focus on Clive Owen's double chin.Fast forward ninety minutes. Still awake? Suddenly, Clive and his informer kiss. Fast forward thirty more minutes. then she arranges for his car to be booby trapped even though he offered to elope with her, I think. Because her mother's an informer too, and she has to die.You see, those IRA types just can't be anything but miserable.Who wrote this tripe? Is that the Tom Bradby who was ITV's political editor? Stick to news, Tom. If it wasn't you, sorry.

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kosmasp
2013/06/05

Your shadow is not always visible to you, who knows what it does if it behind your back? Dancing won't be on the menu, unless you yourself are doing this of course. But the movie on hand, does not take the title as a comedic as I just described it. It's obviously a metaphor. And the movie either delivers on that premise or misses it entirely. Up to you to judge that.Don't rent it if you are looking to watch Gillian Anderson though. She does not have a big part in this. But she is still pivotal and has something to say, especially to Clive Owens character. Clive being the male lead, but the female lead is where the focus lies upon. And on the story that has a few surprises late in the game, which can be called twists. You'll either like them and think they fit, or you think they're a poor attempt to save a mediocre movie

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samkan
2013/06/06

There have been more than a few films about the Irish "Troubles" ranging from from the idealistic ("The Hunger") to the melodramatic ("In the Name of the Father") to the tragic ("Sunday Bloody Sunday") and the historic ("Michael Collins"). But "Shadow Dancer" shines as a legitimate suspense thriller built upon convincingly realistic circumstances. There's an intro giving us character development, motive, etc., that captivates but in hindsight might be better left out. There's also a brief -and most surprising- romantic interlude that at first seems an unneeded diversion but actually has some impact on the end product. But what's intriguing about "Shadow Dancer" is the gritty, mundane realism of overcast Northern Ireland and depressing Belfast lives. The film is thankfully devoid of emotional screes on British repression, Irish solidarity, sacrifice and loss. Plot knots are skillfully tied. Just a taunt, believable thriller with some minor action sequences made without pomp and upon a modest budget. Would've been plenty more satisfied paying $20 for ticket and popcorn for "Shadow Dancer" than for the mega-plex junk my kids drag me to. Andrea Riseborough is easy on the eyes too.

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Chris L
2013/06/07

The film starts excellently by 25 minutes of high level, with surgical, captivating scenes that are the opening scene in Belfast, the subway scene in London and the interrogation. At this moment, one is thinking this might be a great movie.Unfortunately, the rest is less glorious because the script runs out of steam quite violently and turns to an ultra conventional thriller relying on predictable developments. The rhythm falls simultaneously with the interest for this more than classical plot. The movie therefore ends linearly by a not so surprising unfolding.Too bad because the beginning was very good and the quality of the mise-en-scène, the cinematography and the cast augured a much more singular movie, despite a theme — the Troubles — already largely depicted.

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