A dancehall gigolo blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son'e affair with a dancer..
If you have a soft spot for that specific window in the late 1920s where silent films were getting technically ambitious but the stories were still stuck in weird Victorian moral traps, Palais de danse is worth a look. It’s for the person who likes looking at the extras in the background of a frame more than the lead a...
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Maurice Elvey
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"If you have a soft spot for that specific window in the late 1920s where silent films were getting technically ambitious but the stories were still stuck in weird Victorian moral traps, Palais de danse is worth a look. It’s for the person who likes looking at the extras in the background of a frame more than the lead actor’s face. If you can’t stand heavy-handed melodrama or plots that hinge on people being incredibly bad at communicating, you’ll probably hate it within ten minutes. There’s a f..."
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