‘dance dance, otherwise we are lost’ Pina Bausch
Last night we went to see the Wim Wenders film about Pina Bausch.
It was shown by the Granollers cine club and we were lucky to get there as I had written it in my diary for Friday!
It was one of the best films I have ever seen in my life.
If you get the chance to see it – go! If not then hire, borrow or buy the DVD.
I can hardly find words to describe the effect it had on me.
The performances were raw, beautiful, profound, moving, inspiring. Sometimes funny.
You are watching people’s movements and gestures and expressions. Phrases are repeated again and again and again, each time slightly different. At the beginning I felt I had been cracked open wide and somewhere in the middle of the film I started crying almost uncontrollably.
It was as if someone was digging around in my guts. Painful, erotic, intimate.
Sometimes I wanted it to end as I couldn’t bear such naked humanness any more, and then I would long for it go on for ever.
Reminded me of Tango when it’s good.
And of reading Proust.
Click HERE for more information. There is a trailer for the film too.
Oh that is just wonderful to hear you had such an intense experience. I have never seen this film but Wim Wenders is one of my favourite directors – I have seen Paris Texas several times and it gets me every time. And Wings of Desire (Himmel über Berlin) is such a strange and fascinating film, too.
I will look out for Pina.
Are you still dancing Tango? I hope so, there is a group there in Granollers or do you have to go to BCN?
Tango – I am dancing in my heart but at the moment can’t get to Bcn often enough. There was a group in Granollers but it stopped. Once we have found a solution to our dog issues then I can get back to dancing more. Definitely agree with the quote – I am lost without it!
K x
Saw this last year in Penzance and, like you, thought it was one of the best films I’d ever seen. Nearly went back the next day to see it again and I pre-ordered the cd. Have you seen Almodóvar’s Talk to Her? Pina Bausch herself dances the chait piece at the beginning. Powerful elemental stuff…