A wonderful movie with a lot of beautiful dancing and old-world morals

Rating: 9/10 (30 August 2012)

This is a wonderful movie..! Both romantic, beautiful, psychologically correct - and with a good moral lesson to it. I liked it that handsome Gere and young, slim, perfect Lopez did NOT end up. But that Gere stayed with his middle-aged wife, and brought his new interest and new zest for life back into the marriage instead. To share it with his wife - instead of breaking up his family, as so many people do when they hit the mid-life crisis.
This movie held a special interest for me, as I spent many years of my youth in dance studios, learning various kinds of dancing. Among them ball-room dancing. So - I recognize the practice and the atmosphere a lot! Also in real life, there are a lot of "ordinary" people who spend their free-time and money on dancing classes. Because they love the dancing and music, as well as the glamour and the alternate, parallel world... I knew people then, who said that they would not stand their life with a boring job, troublesome family members, etc. - if they did not have the dancing world to flee to.