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‘They Will Be Dust’ Review: Carlos Marqués-Marcet Orchestrates a Delicate Dance with Death in Lively Musical
Ángela Molina and Alfredo Castro have an unexpected bounce in their step as a couple that decides to end their lives in the formally daring drama.
Carlos Marqués-Marcet brings life to a grave situation in “ They Will Be Dust,” realizing that when so many tiptoe around the subject of death, it might not be such a stretch to put an elderly couple in ballet shoes if they’re thinking it’s time to choose for themselves to shuffle off their mortal coil. The unconventional drama proves moving in more ways than one when following the septuagenarian pair that has booked a one-way trip to Switzerland, achieving a level of intimacy unusual even for its reliably sensitive director when music and dance can crack open what mere dialogue cannot. Yet the musical breaks have a depth of feeling that’s uncommon on screen, with marvelous modern choreography from Marcos Morau and Le Veonal which thrusts Claudia in the throes of death when surrounded by dancers whose unnatural movements she eases into mimicking.
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