Boogie Nights
Clubs, nightclubs and other rowdy dance floors are places of ligthness, seduction or dissidence, where musical trends, dramas and romances are born. They are the sulphurous theater of the bodies that are bring together , but also a mental space that can make the multitude and the solitude, the party feeling and the melancholy coexist. From the disco scene of the 1970s to today, this cycle brings together films where people dance without a tomorrow, in the light of neon and strobes.
A pornographic film director discovers a young talent in a nightclub. For a while, the success is there. But the 1980s, money, drugs and the arrival of VHS put an end to the carefree years of glory.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson is an American writer, director and producer. He became known with the drama Boogie Nights, released in 1997, which propelled him to the doors of Hollywood. As such, he is one of the most nominated directors at the Oscars where he has 11 nominations.
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