In Eran Riklis's 2024 adaptation of Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran" (2003), Azar (Golshifteh Farahani) has the women in her private book club learn a dance from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". Then Azar insists that, like Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, they should converse while dancing, but the dance breaks down in laughter. Afterwards, they all sing and dance to an Iranian song instead, with one of the women playing percussion on a metal tray. For me, the layers of dances echoed a central scene in Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" (2025) when singing and dancing blend the past, present, and future of blues music into a utopian moment of liberation. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 3 August 2025)