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Dance with Him

Dance with Him

Comedy · Drama · 2007

Three years after simultaneously parting with a philanderer husband and experiencing a dramatic fall during a horse jumping contest, Alexandra Balzan, a Parisian architect, regains an appetite for life and love after a chance encounter with an aging misanthrope of a master horseman and his horse

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Dance with Him

2007 Comedy · Drama 1h 58m

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6.5 / 10

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Three years after simultaneously parting with a philanderer husband and experiencing a dramatic fall during a horse jumping contest, Alexandra Balzan, a Parisian architect, regains an appetite for life and love after a chance encounter with an aging misanthrope of a master horseman and his horse

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Names above the title

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Directed by

Valérie Guignabodet

Written by

Valérie Guignabodet

Mathilde Seigner

Mathilde Seigner

Alexandra

Sami Frey

Sami Frey

le maître écuyer

J

Jean-François Pignon

Miguel

Anny Duperey

Anny Duperey

La mère d'Alexandra

Anthony Delon

Anthony Delon

Paul

Élodie Navarre

Élodie Navarre

La maîtresse de Paul

Marie-Bénédicte Roy

Marie-Bénédicte Roy

La mère d'Amélie

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The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Ambition earns the room.”

The film reaches for consequence and scale, accepting the risk of seriousness instead of shrinking from it.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Importance has entered the chat.”

The production keeps announcing its significance, as though awards-season posture were proof of insight.