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Dancing Machine (Alain Delon) (French only)

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"Dancing Machine" is not a title for inclusion in a retrospective of Alain Delon films! The copy sold by Amazon has no subtitles, so the plot, such as it is, appears to involve Alain Delon as an older, former dancer with a limp who is the artistic director of a dance company. There is a lot of intrigue involving the new, younger choreographer who is bit of a narcissistic, dancing autocrat. He browbeats women dancers, and Delon frowns a lot and frankly looks like he regretted producing this turkey! The worst part is that the dance sequences are way too long and resemble Solid Gold knockoffs! (See your 1980's reference guide!) Do yourself a favor - DO NOT BUY THIS!

The movie opens with a dance sequence to the fabulous 'supernature'. The plot is ridiculous and some scenes are a laughable (like the dancing to death scene on the roundabout). The lack of subtitles limits the film a bit but not too much as its fairly easy to follow the plot. The film doesn't take its self too seriously as demonstrated by the central cop character who drives an old Russian Lada and talks to his minor bird all evening. It does however feel like its a bit out of time having obviously been made a decade after disco.

All in all, I found it entertaining.

thank you and all staff involved in trying to obtain dvd with english subtitle, the replacemeny dvd was also french language only, the listing had advertised a dvd english subtitle,s,due to the person who writes the listing information making an error .amazon.com were very very helpful in sending a replacement ,which was also without E/ST,believing like i did published info on listing's
after the second dvd arrived,without E/ST,i gave up at this point,rather be a bother, to purchase dvd with es/t. which i needed . but i must say amazon.com are a big company ,with a big heart to help me like they did, i do appreciate the time and trouble your staff took in this matter so thanks once again.if i see one of my old film's in dvd format advertised i,ll be with you again vera