The Road Dance

Name: The Road Dance
Genre: Drama
Released: October 13, 2023
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Ali Fumiko Whitney, Alison Peebles, David Brooks, Felicity Keenan, Hermione Corfield

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Music Box Films | Release Date: October 13, 2023 | NR

Starring: Ali Fumiko Whitney, Alison Peebles, David Brooks, Felicity Keenan, Hermione Corfield, Mark Gatiss, Morven Christie, Scott Miller, Tom Byrne, Will Fletcher

Summary: In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty (Hermione Corfield) yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo (Will Fletcher), an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War IIn a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty (Hermione Corfield) yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo (Will Fletcher), an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration attended by every resident, but this sense of community is soon shattered by an unspeakable incident that changes Kirsty’s life forever. … Expand

Director: Richie Adams

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: NR

Runtime: 116 min

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Bradley Gibson

Oct 12, 2023

The quiet pace of The Road Dance, along with the ebbs and flows of the events around the characters, give it an authenticity and space to feel the impact. You may be captivated just as the filmmaker and I were. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Oct 12, 2023

It’s sentimental, though the way Kirsty is helped by women boiling with fury at the injustice does feel modern. Read full review

Donald Clarke

Oct 12, 2023

Almost entirely set in the island community, The Road Dance delivers on its mission to entertain without defying any long-standing conventions. A pleasant slice of afternoon telly for the big screen. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Oct 12, 2023

Although a little too performatively Scottish at times, this is a competently made weepie that should please fans of the book. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Shifting between stagy sincerity and startling realism (the labor scene is particularly colorful), The Road Dance is a vividly rendered, if ultimately schematic portrait of feminine resilience. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Oct 13, 2023

While the settings may indeed be beautiful, every frame here has been location-scouted and dressed to a fare-thee-well that sucks all the life out of every image—the viewer might also rest easy at the near-certain prospect that The Unfortunate Events will be conveyed as antiseptically and tastefully as possible. Read full review

Zachary Barnes

Oct 13, 2023

The film too often feels like the plodding presentation of a sad story. And it gets sadder still, though as the plot goes on the movie tends to skirt genuine awfulness, reaching instead for the inspiring flashback, the righteous moment of justice or the happy, improbable surprise. Read full review

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