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How She Move | Canadian urban dance film | Sundance favorite
HOW SHE MOVE, the Canadian film directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid, wowed audiences at last year's Sundance Film Festival, winning it a deal with Paramount Pictures. It's now out in theatres across North America.
"Not just another urban dance film (a la You Got Served, or Step Up), How She Move stands out as a well-written and well-acted drama with an appeal that reaches beyond dance fanatics. Raya's (Rutina Wesley) Jamaican immigrant parents are in financial ruin and she's forced to leave her prestigious private school. Back at public school in Toronto's rough Jane-Finch neighborhood, Raya attempts to earn enough money to return to the private school. Upon learning that the top prize for an upcoming step dancing competition is $50,000, Raya persuades her friend Bishop (Dwain Murphy) to let her join his all-boy Jane Street Junta crew. All the pressures of school, parents, and peers bear on Raya in a climactic dance competition (of course!).
How She Move hits home some truths without being heavy-handed about race, poverty, immigrant struggles, crime and punishment...Shot with a lot of handheld camera work in a gritty 16-mm format, the movie feels more like life than an imitation of life...Avoiding the sentimentality and most of the earnestness of the urban dance drama, How She Move takes the prize with kick-ass dancing and on-the-mark acting."
More: Sourced from review of How She Move by Susan Walker (dance writer) @ The Toronto Star | How she move that 49th parallel: As a Canadian dance movie hits the big time, Hollywood makes it safe for Americans by Brian D. Johnson @ Maclean's | How She Move: Not Another Dance Movie @ VIBE | Watch How She Move trailer under the cut
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Posted by TamikoJanuary 28, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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