Film Festival 09 - Every Little Step
Every Little Step
USA 2008, 95m
Directors: James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo
Festivals: Toronto 2008 New Directors/New Films, San Francisco
2009
A Chorus Line did for the Broadway musical in 1975 what Robert
Altman's Nashville did for the movies. It saw through stardom to
find the heart of show business in the personal struggles of a
group of individuals auditioning to join the streamlined anonymity
of a Broadway chorus line. Countless productions later its
characters, like its classic Marvin Hamlisch score, are indelibly
etched on the hearts of anyone anywhere who ever auditioned for a
show. This utterly absorbing behind-the-scenes documentary follows
the auditions for the recent Broadway revival, tacitly comparing
the auditioners of the original show with their dazzling, media
savvy descendents in the post American Idol era. Even if you know
who got through it's heart in the mouth stuff. - Bill
Gosden.
"It's a documentary that asks you to share the joy,
vulnerability, heartbreak, and love of a bunch of dancers trying
out for a musical about a bunch of dancers trying out for a
musical. It is, in other words, a movie as layered and enthralling
as its subject." - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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