Dice Life

With Luke Reinhart as our guide in this story, this truly is a journey into the random thoughts he has – or rather the thoughts he has about random events. The 'act of love' implies that it is an act, a play or a pretense, while the idea of birth is not a single event but a constant event that starts with conception and continues till the death. As Reinhart discusses these issues he also ponders on dice games and their use in life, meanwhile two dancers perform on a blacked sound stage.

If anyone can work out from this film exactly what a 'dice life' is then you have done better than me. Suffice to say that it is about the living of life by reveling in the random nature of live and letting our lives just 'dance'. It is with this one phrase (that comes at the end of the film) that the film seems to be able to drag in three or four main scenes of ballet (but not all tutus etc) that don't totally fit with the talking. However this is not to say that it is a bad film, only that it makes it a select taste. The scenes of Reinhart talking start out interesting but it quickly becomes rather meaningless twaddle that didn't lead anywhere. They are still OK to listen to but if you are looking for any sort of content or meaning in his words then you'd best forget it – at best they made me think but no more than that.

The dancing comprises a scene with Leo Lerus solo, Laila Diallo solo and then a few scenes with them together. Personally I'm not a big lover of dance and it needs to have a hook to really get me involved and here it was mainly a very sparse set with sort of 'performance dance' moves. The dancers are both in very basic outfits and the focus is on their moves; sadly without really understanding the story they were acting out I didn't get into their dance. However despite this they were still impressive physically and both Lerus and Diallo had great muscle tone, poise, movement and strength – people who deride men doing this activity really do not know what they are talking about!

Overall this is not a great film but, if you like dance, then this should have just enough going for it to justify watching it. The dialogue and dance scenes suggest a substance that I just didn't feel was there, but the lack of meaning didn't stop the dialogue being OK to listen to nor stop the dancing being physically impressive and watchable. Not great then, but maybe worth a look if you like dance.