We have a whole genre of movies dedicated to lithe youngsters who just want to dance, against all odds — but it's easy to forget there are places where doing it can actually get you killed. The uneven drama "Desert Dancer" is based on the captivating true story of Iranian artist Afshin Ghaffarian. As a college student in Tehran in the early 2000s, Ghaffarian (played in the film by British actor Reece Ritchie) starts an underground dance company, roping in a few game, activist friends (depicted by Tom Cullen, Marama Corlett, Bamshad Abedi-Amin), as well as a talented newcomer, Elaheh (Freida Pinto) who has ballet chops but, Ghaffarian discovers, a heroin addiction as well.
In his feature directing debut, Richard Raymond has trouble finding his footing (so to speak) as he introduces Afshin's life at the University of Tehran, where morality police walk the streets with clubs while an opposition Green movement percolates. Muted conversations between students about there being "two Irans" — one the iron-fisted government, the other a citizenship dedicated to education, art and intellect — feel a little stilted and expositional, and although it may be true that Ghaffarian found his passion by watching YouTube videos of Rudolph Nureyev, it's not all that exciting to watch him watch them.
Reece Ritchie and Frieda Pinto.Photo: Relativity media
But the film takes off during its own dance sequences, especially those between Ritchie and Pinto; the illicit performance they stage in the desert for a handful of bold young supporters, under the looming threat of arrest, is beautiful and moving. Elaheh's drug story line is less so (though you'll never see anyone look as stunning as Pinto while kicking the addiction) and mainly feels like a distraction from the film's main focus, which kicks into nightmarish high gear when Afshin is swept up by the police during a protest and discovered to be an artist (one sadistic cop's response is, "So beat him artistically").
It may fall into some conventional paces as a triumph-over-adversity story, but "Desert Dancer" does manage to movingly convey the chilling, ultimately triumphant experience of Ghaffarian's struggle for creative expression under a regime that tried to crush it.
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