User Reviews

This movie would definitely be interesting for those whose way of finding their path in life wasn't easy or they are still on it. Main heroine is struggling with quite a lot in her life: relationship with mom, friends, and mostly herself. This carousel of feelings and emotions will be familiar to many, despite their age or where they are from. Nevertheless movie gives a hope that a lot of obstacles eventually we can overcome and make them our unique life experience.

For non-German speakers, the movie is available with English subtitles that to my own feeling sometimes were not exactly matching what was said.

"Luca tanzt leise" or "Dancing Quietly" is a German movie from 2016, so a pretty fresh and new work overall. It has not received a truly great deal of attention I guess because neither the cast nor the people behind the cameras are known at all, not even here in Germany. The latter is especially writer and director Philipp Eichholtz and for him it is the second full feature film of his career. He is still pretty young and occasionally shows potential, but in terms of steady and convincing screen writing he still needs to improve in the next couple years I would say. The actress who plays the title character is Martina Schöne-Radunski and I have never heard the name before seeing this film. It's difficult to say for me if I like her or not in terms of the performance she gave. Maybe accurate, but not really memorable would be a fitting description. This film here is really short, but that's not a problem I think. It actually means that the film does not really drag. But there are some logical problems like a young woman would not get schooled by her mother at an official institution that offers people to do their A-Levels. And there are a handful more moments where the film is not really that strong in terms of logical aspects. The relationships between the characters (regardless of family or (boy)friends) often suffer from weak writing when it comes to dialogues and that's a bit of a shame as I felt the actors all were pretty solid. The ending is heartbreaking for an animal lover like myself, but honestly it feels to me as if it is something that felt just dramatic for the sake of it instead of delivering on an emotional level. And the almost final scene with the other dog was really an uncreative example of shoddy feel-good writing. All in all, this film has its moments and strengths I think, but there is more weak and forgettable in here than really strong or memorable. I give this one a thumbs-down. Not recommended. Oh yeah and when you are vegan you are vegan. You don't eat meat from your grandmother because she is such an amazing cook.