"A beautifully rendered slice-of-life film", says Netflix: I would say it's more a sick pedophile's leering look at young Arabs in some god-forsaken French village. Though there are occasional beautiful shots of a nearby lake (it's hard to screw up sunlight on a lake, folks) the majority of the film is monotonously bland. The young actors are all physically beautiful, but forced to say and do the most unattractive things by this sick twisted film maker. More appropriate adjectives than "beautifully rendered" would be pointless, sickening, ugly, tedious, disjointed, boring, ridiculous, obtuse, unclear, loud, obnoxious, and stupid. Three Dancing Slaves may be the most miserably unpleasant movie I have ever seen. I've been an avid movie watcher for forty years and this is the first time I ever wanted to leave the theater, including PINK FLAMINGOES. But where FLAMINGOES is intended to be funny, and the gross-out humor is intentionally over the top and self-consciously silly, SLAVES takes itself totally seriously. The entire film is conducted without any vestige of humor, grace, or wit, and the gay angle is minor, trivial, and pointless.
Review of Three Dancing Slaves
