印第安纳州一个人口不足千人的小镇,一所舞蹈学校也没有,这里就是21岁的罗琳•寇比(玛丽•伊丽莎白•文斯蒂德 Mary Elizabeth Winstead 饰)从小生活的地方。罗琳父母留下的小汽配厂现在由哥哥掌管,并且不出意外的话,罗琳以后的人生也将围绕汽配厂展开……可这不是她想要的生活,罗琳多年来一直自学舞蹈,这次她自驾前往芝加哥参加舞蹈学校的入学考试,希望得到录取以改变人生。 然而结果是残酷的,被淘汰的罗琳不甘于回家,在一位落考前辈的帮助下,她在舞厅找到了一份记账员的工作,并告诫自己舞厅的艳舞并非自己的风格,然而舞蹈的天性是不能隐藏的,终于因一个舞者的缺席,罗琳得到了一次展示自己的机会……
An outstanding comedy whose poetic style hearkens back to the films of Wes Anderson. It tells of a youngster focused on winning the nationwide drumming championship in spite of certain obstacles – such as not having any drums! A film that is every bit as hardcore as Jimmy Page’s guitar, and every bit as endearing as Robert Plant’s waistcoats. There are a lot of films that stick to the hackneyed theme of the outsider bent on fulfilling his dream in spite of all the odds – thanks to which he not only achieves his coveted success but, moreover, instils hope in the hearts of the weak and degraded through his courage and determination. But none of these films has had a protagonist as charismatic as Power – a young man obsessed with drumming drumlessly (read steady gesticulation set to the rhythm of legendary heavy metal anthems), whose aim is to win the nationwide drumming championship, support striking miners in New Mexico and win the heart of a girl who went deaf at the age of three at a Status Quo concert. This brilliant comedy – reminiscent of the films of Wes Anderson in its fascination with bizarre twists on standard genre themes – will thrill you even if you are not a fan of 1970s hard-rock dinosaurs. But you mustn’t forget Power’s creed while you’re watching “I don’t need drums. I am drums! About the director Ari Gold received a Student Oscar in 2000 for his film Helicopter, an experimental short film in which he used authentic photography, scene reconstructions and animated sequences to tell of the tragic death of his mother. The Sundance Festival accepted Gold’s short student films for three consecutive years, and one of them – the sixty-second film Culture, which the filmmaker accompanied with a 10-point manifesto signed with the pseudonym Ari von Gold – elicited (particularly in Serbia) a wave of similar films of exactly one minute in length avowing “Dogma 99”. In addition to filmmaking, Ari Gold is also a dedicated musician – he sings in the bands The Honey Brothers and The Gold Brothers, he plays the ukulele, the piano and occasionally the drums. The film Adventures of Power is his first feature-length film.