Dance with Him

Three years after simultaneously parting with a philanderer husband and experiencing a dramatic fall during a horse jumping contest, Alexandra Balzan (Mathilde Seigner), a Parisian architect, regains an appetite for life and love after a chance encounter with an aging misanthrope of a master horseman (Sami Frey) and his horse, in a dilapidated and deserted riding school near Beauvais. Miguel (Jean-François Pignon), the only lad to have stayed in the riding school out of faithfulness to the master and his values, is at the same time a stuntman for movies, and suffers from the disregard of film crews for the risks he has to take. Those three, in spite of their life-inflicted wounds, are legatees of an ancient equestrian science and know-how inherited from generations of master horsemen. The movie is about how the three make use of this science and know-how to redress the training of a magnificent horse, a training which has been sabotaged by a previous ignorant and careless owner. The success of this common endeavor brings back self-esteem to this woman and two men, but the movie makes clear that their scars are not healed and their difficulties in life are not ended. But - quite simply - they have lived together a period of equestrian fulfillment.

Grosses

France
$6,835,976
Domestic ()
Summary Details
DistributorWild Bunch Distribution
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Release DateFeb 21, 2007
Running Time1 hr 58 min
GenresDrama
In Release314 days/44 weeks
Widest Release325 theaters
DateRankWeekly %± LW TheatersChange AvgTo DateWeek
Feb 21-275$2,648,012-308-$8,597$2,648,0121
Feb 28-Mar 67$1,708,939-35.5%322+14$5,307$4,356,9512
Mar 7-139$925,675-45.8%322-$2,874$5,282,6263
Mar 14-2012$847,893-8.4%325+3$2,608$6,130,5194
Mar 21-2713$458,462-45.9%322-3$1,423$6,588,9815
Mar 28-Apr 318$246,995-46.1%242-80$1,020$6,835,9766