Dansen med Regitze

Most love stories focus on romance; a valid choice, being the most saleable part of such a story. It works so well because it follows all the needs for story: it starts, it complicates, it has a satisfactory ending (or the opposite, if a tragedy -- and therefore a negative example which still supports the same example) . People want to live or relive such stories, whether they are 17 or 70.

This, of course, is a different tale: one which illustrates love in a more whole fashion. Love is not just romance, desire, passion and payoff (though it may well include all those things). Real love lasts longer than any of those, and therefore include elements that don't go so well with bright colors and swelling music: endurance, understanding, and shared connections. But it's also likely to include disappointments and even shocking betrayals, which doesn't make an easily appreciated story; viewers may well respond that these are the moments they'd rather not dwell on.

Danzin med Regitze doesn't sugar-coat things: people aren't always at their best, and they will fall short of the hopes they lay on each other. And yet, they may also move past those things. Long-term love isn't like that of youth. This isn't romantic, but it is real. That deserves to be in movies too, and here it is -- if you can find it.