Dancing their blues away

Dancers,” the Danish winner of the film festival’s Best Director award, appears on the surface as a conventional love story between two lonely people finding solace in each other’s company, and it’s certainly not the most original movie you’ll watch this year. What sets “Dancers” apart from similar European dramas is director/writer Pernille Fischer Christensen’s treatment that interweaves the notion of forgiveness, social norms and guilt into the equation. Yet the most remarkable aspect of the...