Burning Dreams

Un film que nous avait recommandé KavkaLu.

L'homme qui danse s'appelle LIANG Yi

Une vraie histoire qui avait lieu à Shanghai. 上海 en chinois.上, sur; 海, la mer.

Sur la photo, c'est le Bund au bord de la rivière de Huangpu.

La phrase chinoise: Shanghai est Shanghai, (c'est parce que...)

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Burning Dreams opens with fantastically arresting images: a young woman dances on the roof of a Shanghai skyscraper as dawn breaks over the city. Beautifully shot in monochrome, Wayne Peng’s documentary delivers exactly what that amazing opening promises: he could have called it Dance and the City. His subject is the Dreams 52 Dance School, an academy founded in 1999 to teach what it calls ‘jazz dance’ – by which it means the kind of moves seen in Broadway musicals. The focus is on the school’s principal, a dauntingly fit and feisty seventy-year-old known as Liang Yi, a man who has never quite outgrown his hopeless ambition to become Taiwan’s answer to Gene Kelly. His only real hope now is to discover a real talent among the kids who flock to his classes: not very likely, but you gotta dream. The film pauses to sketch the lives and ambitions of some of those kids – the college girl on summer vacation, the two boys from Chongqing who want to learn hip-hop – and through them gets a sense of what has made Shanghai such a dynamic city. Funny, touching and completely engrossing, this is a real delight.

Tony Rayns

Cast and Credits:

Directed by	Wayne Peng
Written by	Wayne Peng
With	Yang Yang, Liang Yi
Country	Taiwan-Singapore
Year of Production	2003
Running Time	75 minutes
Subtitled	YES

source: www.lff.org.uk/

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Liang Yi

YANG Yang

Comments

[SL]

c'est un bon film