It is rare because it's by an Arabs team but filmed a blonde belly dancer with an openly gay friend. Dance movies usually hit ballet, street jazz, ballroom is already a minority but belly dancing...
The story is a fairy tale about a novice simply with passion made magic in no time. It doesn't bother me if the story was too unrealistic or over-simplify the dance career, after all, I have watched a lot of craps having no story at all. This one at least brings about the idea of taking risk to make life's change, and tries to bring some cultural issues though it seemed fake and too American.
A 25-aged girl selling everything she owned in order to finance herself to fly from New York to Cairo to track after her boyfriend of three weeks, this itself didn't make much sense, but the film needed a reason for a white to succeed in the East. Then we have a reason! If you are satisfied with a make-believe tale, it's really okay to see she got private lessons from a legendary dancers, it's okay to see a dramatic improvement in technique, it's okay to see an impresario spot her in a night club and eager to sponsor her to dance, it's of course okay to see such a fresh dancer with no connection get to perform on the grandest stage... Everything has been defied my personal knowing of the dance career. BUT you would like ti believe it, because you would like to believe in miracle, you would like to see there is hope, so that you can keep fueling yourself.
