‘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.