A review by gum1311by
The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare

3.0

I originally became interested in reading this book after seeing the international film by the same title. John Malkovich reportedly was very vested in the project and wanted to bring this story to film and I wanted to understand why. The story is slow at times and often difficult to follow but it is based upon real events in South America so I stayed with it to the end. Parts of the tale are disturbing with the violence portrayed, and probably more so because, again, it is based upon real events.