Saturday Night Fever
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.
At the dawn of his adult life, Tony Manero doubts his future. To the company of his family, who never stop denigrating him, he prefers hang out with his friends and the parties at the club 2001 Odyssey. There, on the disco dance floor, he is the king.
John Badham
John Badham is a British film director and producer. Born in the United Kingdom, Badham grew up in the United States. He worked in television for several years before finding success in film with Saturday Night Fever in 1977. His last feature film, Road Movie, was made in 1998. Since then, he has directed numerous episodes of television series. Since 2005, he has been a professor of film at Chapman University in Orange county.
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Disco clubs : tour de piste
Il y a un plaisir indéniable à revisiter des films où les clubs, discothèques et autres scènes de party dansant ont une place de premier plan, parce que l’on sait qu’on y trouvera les ingrédients qui nous font jubiler au cinéma : le factice, le clinquant, le rythme et l’absence d’inhibition. Et pourtant, ces scènes de défoulement sont presque toujours teintées de sentiments plus troubles. (...)
