2008 · music · comedy
Disco
Directed by Fabien Onteniente1h 43m2008
Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his son refuses to send him their son for the holidays unless he can offer him a real vacation, not just going to bars of the French port city of Le Havre. Penniless, the only way he can see his son is by winning a dance contest organized by his friend Jackson, with the prize of a vacation to Australia for two.
Our read: Disco (2008) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded music · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle music / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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