The Waltz (My First Dance)

An old, withered female body shown in Waltz is an expression of the grotesque, afterwards represented by the séance of the dancing bodies of young men and old women. By opposing the dance of life and death, the transition implicates the personification of Eros and Thanatos. Confronting the images polarizing the body and meat, the entrance and the exit, the film provokes an impression of the transience of life. The emphasis given on the aspects of sexuality, masculinity and eroticism narrated through the dance of generations is an externalization of the nostalgic relationship between melancholy and escapism. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)