Dance First, review: this bizarre Samuel Beckett biopic is a quiet disaster

• “A play in which nothing happens, twice” was how the Irish critic Vivian Mercier memorably described Waiting For Godot shortly after its US premiere – and to be clear, Mercier meant it as a compliment. This quietly disastrous film about the life of its writer, Samuel Beckett, suffers from the opposite problem: here, far too much happens, all of it amounting to zip.