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Movie Info

Once a week, a diner in a working-class town is converted into a makeshift nightclub. Here, Cuban immigrants from New York and New Jersey gather to dance the rumba until the wee hours. In addition to explaining the rumba's roots in Cuban culture, this documentary explores the daily lives of these recreational dancers, a group that includes a cook, a mechanic and other hardworking laborers. But the film's main focus is Sundays,when the evening is devoted to the rumba.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Heddy Honigmann
Producer:

Pieter van Huystee
Writer:

Heddy Honigmann, Ester Gould
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 13, 2017
Runtime:

2h 2m

Cast & Crew

Heddy Honigmann
Director

Heddy Honigmann
Writer

Ester Gould
Writer

Pieter van Huystee
Producer

Critic Reviews for Give Me Your Hand

All Critics (11) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (7)

The long and short of it is that that this road-trip film is not terrible, but it is certainly not a good movie. It lacks a plot and goes nowhere, but the scenes of rural France are magnificent.

January 17, 2018 | Full Review…

Ed Koch
The Atlantic
When the French are pretentious, the word gets a whole new meaning.

April 22, 2010 | Rating: 1/5

Derek Malcolm
London Evening Standard
The movie always looks good with an inspired comic-book animated opening sequence, but there is something preposterous about the leads and their smouldering emotions.

April 16, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
The Carrils are so inexpressive and the script so sketchy that we never have much of a stake in figuring it out.

September 11, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Mike Hale
New York Times
What's refreshing about Pascal-Alex Vincent's dramatically thin but richly atmospheric feature debut is that it recognizes the essential truth of the conceit: all seminal voyages are journeys of heightened awareness, as visceral as they are emotional.

September 9, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Stephen Garrett
Time Out
It's usually a dangerous sign when a director casting about for an idea gets fascinated by twins.

September 8, 2009 | Full Review…

Nicolas Rapold
Village Voice
With its meandering, unfocussed narrative, this sometimes feels more like beautiful moving wallpaper than an actual film. But even without much plot, it's a fascinating exploration of identity.

April 22, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
An award-winner for his short films, Vincent makes the stretch to feature length comfortably enough, even if his meditation on the limits of brotherly love does allow its imagery of wild European landscapes to do more of the talking...

April 22, 2010 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Josh Winning
Total Film
It's almost hard to see the movie inside all the recycled beats and diaphanous construction, much less to feel its pulse.

October 14, 2009 | Rating: C- | Full Review…

Nick Davis
Nick's Flick Picks
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September 11, 2009 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Matthew Turner
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