Nine Easy Dances

Nora Rosenthal’s life has always been guided by dance. When she decides to make a film to gather her family’s memories and create what could be their ultimate trace, what better medium than a danced film? But reality clashes with reality: her parents are not up to interpreting themselves. The real isn’t false enough to seem true. By hiring actors and choreographing nine dances as absurd as they are exquisite, the filmmaker plays with family memory to make the mundane a little stranger, like a dream. It is also a profoundly moving act to confront the unthinkable: the probable loss of one of them. But also to imagine another ending to it all. As her grandmother says in a recording that remains of her: "Memory is a funny thing."

Aurélien Marsais
Programmer, producer