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Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Strasbourg 1518’ is a gutting danse macabre for coronavirus

JL;DR SUMMARY Jonathan Glazer's latest project, "Strasbourg 1518," is a 10-minute short film that explores the phenomenon of a historical dancing sickness that took place in a French city in 1518. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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