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A Wink and a Smile - Private Dallas Screening with Producer Jack Timmons
A WINK AND A SMILE
Ten women have six weeks to learn the art of burlesque.
Their lives will never be the same.
Moulin Rouge meets The Full Monty in this musical documentary that tracks ten burlesque students as they study the artful striptease.
A WINK AND A SMILE opens with drums and sousaphone accompanying a spectacular collage of tightly-bound corsets, pasty-adorned breasts and rhinestone-encrusted heels. The camera cuts to the sensuous, I-dare-you fan dance of the films leading lady, Miss Indigo Blue.
"Burlesque is a simple formula: Performer enters stage wearing clothes - something happens - performer exits stage wearing fewer clothes," explains the sultry headmistress of the Academy of Burlesque, Miss Indigo Blue.
Over the next six weeks, Indigo guides her budding divas as they learn to shimmy, shake, bump and grind their way into audiences' hearts.
We find out why a homemaker, a reporter, an opera singer, a taxidermist and several students are joining the American cultural revival that's swelling from fringe fascination to mainstream obsession. What is the journey as the women abandon their plain-Jane lives and assume the roles of a 1960s stripper, a flirty little birdy, a wayward prom queen, and Little Red Riding Hood with and dark and naughty twist? And how do they feel about publicly exposing their very real bodies in a culture that idolizes air-brushed tans, fake breasts, anorexic waistlines, and short-lived youth?
Performances of local leading burlesque and boylesque divas weave throughout the film, illustrating Miss Indigo's practical advice with eye-popping performances of hilarity, shock and beauty.
The 90-minute documentary throbs with music new and long-forgotten, accompanying the women as they trade their good-girl social strings for rhinestone-encrusted g-strings while spreading their erotic wings.
Welcome to A WINK AND A SMILE. A world where performance art and showgirl spectacle kiss you on the cheek and leave you swooning. A world where music, theater, and sexuality crash into over-the-top glamour. A world where many want to go, but most never dare.
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LocationAngelika Film Center - Dallas
Mockingbird Station
Dallas, TX 75206
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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