{"id":13319,"date":"2011-02-12T21:36:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T05:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=13319"},"modified":"2011-02-12T22:00:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T06:00:34","slug":"dance-marathon-magdalena-holland-lazarkiewicz-2010-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=13319","title":{"rendered":"Dance Marathon (Magdalena Holland-Lazarkiewicz, 2010): Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=1299\">Stacie Manifold<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2011.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sbiff.org\/images\/films\/Dance-Marathon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>D<\/strong>irector: Magdalena Holland-Lazarkiewicz<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> story based in a small town in Poland where a radio station is hosting a dance marathon.\u00a0 There is a large cash prize and new car for the winner.\u00a0 Everyone from the town enters.<\/p>\n<p>i<strong>N<\/strong>troduced to a number of characters and storylines right from the beginning<\/p>\n<p><strong>C<\/strong>o-written screenplay by director Magdalena Holland-Lazarkiewicz and Maciej Kowalewski who has written many television series in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>r<strong>E<\/strong>ligion plays an undertone in the movie, but director refers to it as magical realism<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>M<\/strong>oral struggle..everyone needs money badly. What are people willing to do for money?<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>b<strong>A<\/strong>sed on real events that the writer\/director had read about in the newspaper about dance marathons being organized<\/p>\n<p><strong>R<\/strong>eferences another film called &#8220;They Shoot Horses Don&#8217;t They?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>c<strong>A<\/strong>st lesser known actors or amateurs so the story would feel more real<\/p>\n<p>wro<strong>T<\/strong>e screenplay in a way not to reveal more to the audience than the characters themselves know<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>s<strong>H<\/strong>ot in 24 days<\/p>\n<p><strong>O<\/strong>riginal Polish name of film is Maraton tanca<\/p>\n<p>o<strong>N<\/strong>e of my favorite movies of the festival!<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Stacie Manifold.\u00a0 Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2011. Director: Magdalena Holland-Lazarkiewicz A story based in a small town in Poland where a radio station is hosting a dance marathon.\u00a0 There is a large cash prize and new car for the winner.\u00a0 Everyone from the town enters. iNtroduced to a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}