It's compelling for 40 minutes, but Sue Bourne's documentary about the 40th Irish Dancing championship stumbles into X Factor-style pathos, says Catherine Shoard
To kick Sue Bourne's documentary about the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships feels both mean and ill-advised ? these people sure know how to use their tootsies. And for a good 40 minutes, it's compelling stuff: pint-sized dancers from round the globe goosestep to the sound of tinny fiddles, torsos stiff as ladders, yelled at in gyms by parents or coaches. But once they descend on Glasgow for the competition proper, Jig loses its footing and stumbles into X-factor style pathos, with morbid slo-mo reaction shots and heavy orchestration.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/may/05/jig-review
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