''Dancing Queens'' is a 2021 Swedish

comedy-drama Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

film directed by

Helena Bergström Helena Kristina Bergström Nutley (born 5 February 1964) is a Swedish actress and film director. From an acting family, she began her career in 1982. She has appeared on the stages of the Royal Dramatic Theatre (''Dramaten'') and the Stockholm ...

, written by Bergström and Denize Karabuda. It stars

Molly Nutley Molly Nutley (born 16 March 1995) is a Swedish actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, ...

, Fredrik Quiñones,

Marie Göranzon Britt-Marie Elisabeth Göranzon Malmsjö (born 27 October 1942) is a Swedish actress. Marie Göranzon has been part of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre-ensemble since 1967. She trained at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1964 to 1967. ...

, and Mattias Nordkvist.

Plot

Dylan Pettersson, a 23-year-old young woman from a small island in the

Bohuslän Bohuslän (; da, Bohuslen; no, Båhuslen) is a Swedish province in Götaland, on the northernmost part of the country's west coast. It is bordered by Dalsland to the northeast, Västergötland to the southeast, the Skagerrak arm of the North Sea ...

archipelago, aspires to be a professional dancer. She’s talked into covering cleaning duties at the struggling

gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...

drag club Queens for a week. Victor, the club’s star dancer and choreographer, discovers Dylan's talent, and she desperately wants to be a dancer on the show, but she's a girl — and it's a drag show.

Cast

Release

''Dancing Queens'' was digitally released by

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on June 3, 2021.

Reception

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External links

* * * 2021 films 2021 LGBT-related films 2020s dance films 2020s Swedish-language films Gay-related films Swedish comedy-drama films Swedish LGBT-related films Swedish-language Netflix original films 2021 comedy-drama films {{LGBT-film-stub