Film Review: Dada's Dance

October 03, 2008 Part female coming-of-age experience and part road movie, Zhang Yuan's "Dada's Dance" is less a film than an adagio that owes its romantic Latino atmosphere a lovely score by Italian composer Andrea Guerra ("Hotel Rwanda," "The Pursuit of Happyness"). Compared to "Little Red Flowers," Zhang's last film that was entertaining yet profoundly allegorical, this is light on substance and almost too pleasant for comfort to art house audiences expecting more intellectual or provocative fare from the former vanguard of China's underground cinema. Zhang's marquee name, however, could still throw weight behind festival invitations and specialist theatrical deals.

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