Eden, a film about French disco and Zac Efron’s We Are Your Friends are out to prove that the dancefloor experience can be recreated on the big screen. Why has it taken so long?
As the kids never used to say: it’s all gone a bit Pete Tong. Dance music culture is at least 30 years old, and yet there has barely been a piece of cinema that has meaningfully portrayed the last great revolutionary musical movement. Tong himself asked, in a recent Billboard editorial, why in the age of EDM – the catch-all term under which “electronic dance music” finally stormed the US mainstream – the genre hadn’t had its big-screen coronation. “Where’s our Saturday Night Fever? Where’s our Empire? Where’s our Do the Right Thing or Hustle & Flow?”
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