• Film running length: 100 min
• UK release date: 8/11/2008
• Directed by: Noèmie Lvovsky
• Language: English
• Distributor: Uk Jewish Film Festival

Who´s in it?

What´s the plot? Parisian bon viveur Salomon Bellinsky (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is nearly eighty, and sick of being treated as if he’s about to shuffle off this mortal coil. Salomon’s entire family were murdered by the Nazis and he’s got no intention of wasting a single moment, merrily tap dancing along to Hollywood musicals and running rings around his exasperated daughter Sarah (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, sister of Madame Sarkozy no less).

Noèmie Lvovsky’s tragi-comic-romance is impossible to pigeonhole, never short on surprises, and like no other portrait of Holocaust survival you will have seen. Particularly touching is Salomon’s love affair with the younger Violet (the fabulous Sabine Azema), a scatty but very chic history teacher who must adjust to Salomon’s unconventional ways, and those of his estranged wife Geneviève, who has retreated into a semi-infantile state under the care of devoted companion Mr Mootoosamy. With its joyful sense of the surreal, Let’s Dance mirrors life’s little absurdities, facing up to the challenges of getting older and coming to terms with one’s past.