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Dancing on Glass

2022 · 137 min

A slow, pressure-cooker drama of ballet discipline and fragile friendship, more suffocating than soaring.

Directed by: Jota Linares
Genres: Drama
Starring: María Pedraza, Paula Losada, Mona Martínez

Overview: When immense pressure threatens a ballerina in a new lead role, she and another dancer escape into a friendship that isolates them from the real world.

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Directed by: Jota Linares
Genres: Drama
Starring: María Pedraza, Paula Losada, Mona Martínez

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
friendship
isolation
ambition
identity
Places: workplace
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Jota Linares
Written by: Jorge Naranjo, Jota Linares
Starring: María Pedraza, Paula Losada, Mona Martínez, Marta Hazas, Ana Wagener, Juanjo Almeida, Jota Castellano, Iria del Río
Runtime: 137 min
Country: Spain
Languages: Spanish

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