Tango (1999)

 Terrific Tango
From beginning to end, the film Tango is infused with exquisite music and superb dancing. Although the story line is rather confusing and uninteresting, it works to glue all the dazzling tangos together and to offer some reason for the amazing variety of dances. With repeated watchings, you begin to notice the subtle themes in the music and choreography that repeat throughout, adding an invisible but powerful underlying rhythm to the production. For those dancing tango now, it's fun to see the differences between current styling techniques and those shown in this ten year-old film. Cecilia Narova's dancing is phenomenal; her only dance with Juan Carlos Copes (at the very end of the film) is a classic. March 3, 2008

 Another Saura Triumph in Stunning Cinematography
Argentinian Director Carlos Saura turns a simple, age-old theme of art, love, and betrayal into a visual feast of color and motion. The protagonist moves through an inextricably intertwined plot as his life imitates his art. After compromising both he settles for the attainable, and in the case of his art (producing and directing an elaborate play), for the sublime. But the sublime in "Tango" is not the plot...it is the consistent, relentless beauty of color and form that makes the movie a "must see" for those with an eye for and love of, the truly beautiful. December 30, 2007

 Tango Lives
The pulse, passion and some history of the Tango in Argentina.
Love's karmic circles and fast rhythmic sensuous dancing.

These are real women and men with genuine passion in
honest relationships.

Your life will be better with these romantic dancers and
melodies in your brain. October 17, 2007

 Tango is passionate and sensual without being sexual...
I love Tango, the movie, the music and the dance and I don't tire of watching this movie. My copy ended up coming from Hong kong so it took me a little while to figure out how to turn off the Chinese subtitles, but once I did that, it was heavenly. The dialogue is clever. The story is not a new one. His movie is a metaphor for the mess of his life which is also a metaphor for the mess the country has become. The use of color and lighting is very Storaro and in my opinion, this movie easily surpasses Sally Potter's "The Tango Lesson" in film quality, storyline, acting and choreography. (Interesting how both directors chose to tell a story within a story about love affairs with their protegees during the making of both of these movies.) It's almost as if they needed an excuse to make their dance movies. That being said, whatever your preference, there is something for everyone- women with men, women with women, men with men- the tango is one of the few dances where it is acceptable to dance with a same sex partner, and consequently, some of the dances have very sensual overtones, almost like you are watching something forbidden. The Pogrom sequence is very disturbing- a little remisniscent of the recent Cabaret revival ending - but it fits in the movie and what he ends up having to do to get his show staged is a humorous and unexpected ending to this dance spectacle.I wish he had found a better dancer than Mia Maestro but I reading somewhere online that this had been a case of art imitating life -so ladies and gentlemen, introducing the Mia Maestro!
Nevertheless, I found this beautifully done and I have watched it over and over and over. It is much better without subtitles of any kind blocking the dancer's feet, so brush up on your Spanish. It's not an instructional DVD and it's not quite the tango you see in Buenos Aires'crowded milongas, but it is a veritable feast for the eyes and the soul.The movie's original score is some of the best work of the incomparable Lalo Schiffrin and the choreography is something you will want to see again and again. September 13, 2007

 Best Foreign Musical
The music is marvelous,dancing,no way I can put it in words. I am an amature ballroom dancer & to be able to dance like that is a dancers dream. I WILL WATCH THIS OVER & OVER. BOB September 5, 2007

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