BY LOIS WADSWORTH
Agustin Rejas
(Javier Bardem)
takes a walk with
Yolanda (Laura
Morante).
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DUMB AND DUMBERER*
DADDY DAY CARE (PG)
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11:25
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THE ITALIAN JOB
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10:15, 10:40
(PG-13)
RUGRATS GO WILD*
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Malkovich directs understated, intelligent film.
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CONFIDENCE (R)
OLD SCHOOL (R)
THE DANCER UPSTAIRS: Directed by
John Malkovich. Written by Nicholas Shakespeare, based
on his novel. Produced by Andres Vicente Gomez and
John Malkovich. Executive producers, Lianne Halfon and
Russ Smith. Cinematography, Jose Luis Alcaine. Original
music, Alberto Iglesias. Editor, Mario Battistel.
Production design, Pierre-Francois Limbosh. Costumes,
Bina Daigeler. Starring Javier Bardem and Laura
Morante. With Marie-Anne Berganza. Juan Diego Botto,
Elvira Minguez, Alexandra Lencastre, Oliver Cotton, Luis
Miguel Cintra and Abel Folk. Fox Searchlight Pictures,
2003. R. 128 minutes.
J
ohn Malkovich directs The
Dancer Upstairs with the
same dedication and focus
that he brings to his best work as an
actor. For instance, he’s deliberate in
his portrayal of an android learning to
act human in Susan Seidelman’s 1986
comedy, Making Mr. Right. Although
darker and not as playful, Dancer also
draws on the minimalist art of doing
nothing and doing it well. It’s a
thoughtful, serious film that tackles
the roots of terrorism, its appeal to op-
pressed people and its ruthless disre-
gard for culture and innocence in pur-
suit of political goals. It opposes a cor-
rupt military government that also ig-
nores and brutalizes its people.
A sad love story is layered over and
laced throughout the terrorist theme. A
lonely, idealistic lawyer turned police
captain, Agustin Rejas (Javier
Bardem) falls in love with his daugh-
ter’s dance teacher, Yolanda (Laura
Morante), in the midst of a massive
man hunt for a murderous Maoist folk
hero named Ezequiel (Abel Folk).
The film is set in an unidentified
Latin American country during an un-
specified time, but it’s based on some
of the facts surrounding the capture of
Abimael Guzman, the leader of the
1980-1992 insurrection in Peru called
Sendero Luminoso or The Shining
Path. For authenticity, the cast is made
up of uniformly excellent Latin actors
— Bardem (Spain), Morante (Italy)
and Juan Diego Botto (Argentina),
who plays Sucre, Rejas’ partner.
The film opens as a truck grinds its
way up and over an empty mountain
highway in the dark, blasting its way
through a poorly manned government
checkpoint. Later, the truck ap-
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A sad love story is layered over and laced throughout the terrorist theme.
Atmospheric
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proaches another crosspoint with two
armed guards. The guard on duty,
Agustin Rejas (Bardem), asks the
driver to come inside, makes congenial
conversation, takes notes, types an ap-
plication and snaps a Polaroid. The
driver gets back in the truck and speeds
off into the night.
Five years later, the guard is now a
police detective in the capital. Captain
Rejas and Sucre find dead dogs rigged
with dynamite hanging from lamp
posts, along with crude, hand-lettered
signs in support of “President
Ezequiel.” The terrorists grow bolder,
executing officials and using children
as suicide bombers. Rejas gets hold of
a video of the brutal execution of a
Catholic priest by a child.
So he slips out of the city and into
the countryside, where he talks to ordi-
nary people. No one opposes Ezequiel,
he learns. The farmers hate the way
they’re treated by the government, and
Ezequiel speaks for them. Rejas has an
informative meeting with an old col-
league and returns to the city disturbed
by what he has heard and seen. Rejas
and his squad begin to put together
pieces of the Ezequiel puzzle.
Meanwhile, Rejas has complica-
tions at home. He adores his daughter,
Laura (Marie-Anne Berganza), but his
wife, Sylvina (Alexandra Lencastre),
loves her social life and has no idea, it
seems, about the world her husband
lives and works in.
These characters are on a collision
course with history, and nothing Rejas
can do will change that fact. He will
survive, but his ideals may not.
Bardem plays this principled, profes-
sional man with restraint, showing
emotion only to Yolanda and Laura.
Malkovich lets the camera linger on
him. An unconventional thriller, The
Dancer Upstairs challenges the viewer
to slow down and pay attention, and it
rewards those who do. The score by
Alberto Iglesias (Talk to Her)
is sublimeThe film opens at the
Bijou Friday, June 20. Highly
recommended.
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