After the death of her husband, Eni Spinelli, mother of documentary filmmaker Kelly Cristina Spinelli, found herself without a partner - to dance and to share her life with. Years later, she solved part of the problem by hiring one of the ...See moreAfter the death of her husband, Eni Spinelli, mother of documentary filmmaker Kelly Cristina Spinelli, found herself without a partner - to dance and to share her life with. Years later, she solved part of the problem by hiring one of the so-called taxi dancers, young male dancers who come from the outskirts of Sao Paulo and charge up to 50 dollars a night to take elderly upper class women out to dance. In A Partner to Call My Own, Kelly follows her mother and four other women who hire taxi dancers, thus investigating loneliness, sexuality and privilege among elderly women.
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