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Rating:  - Want to learn Argntinian Tango? Watch this over & over.
Plot weak. No Matter. WATCH THE DANCERS!!!!over and over.Here you wont see snaps of the head from R-----L & back like in the dance competitions on PBS. Watch older people do it. My dancing has become more fluid (IM 75 ) Thisis ARGENTINIAN TANGO DANCED FOR FUN not for an award!
Rating:  - Nice tango...bad story
This film was so disappointing. I love tango. And Buenos Aires. If it wasn't for both of these elements in the film...it would get no stars. Sally Potter is so self indulgent. The story is so discredible....that we are supposed to believe this young guy has a romantic attachment to her?! Perhaps if she had cast a younger female for the lead role this may have been more believeable. The actual 'plot' was so weak...nothing happens in the whole film except she learns tango and wrecks my head.
Rating:  - Salute to the dance...
A fantastic, inventive, unexpected, energy laden salute to the dance. The dance...
The music is divine, Latin, intense, dramatic, haunting then joyful. The images, all excellent, well done and as they should be. The cities of Paris, London, and Buenos Aires, each in its own milieu; with sound effects of music, rhythm, the human voice, in languid love song, or in French vocal combat, perfection upon the ear.
It's a stretch, to follow the artist's imagination, into convolutions which lure then baffle you. Her intentions are to find the shape of her creation, within the creation, and to give it shape in that place.
The rounded square staircase, looking down four floors from above, opening outward like a grand snail shell, into that mysterious place above. The staircase, and the view from below of the great geometric layers of stone, where flickering in and out of color and form, ideas suggest themselves--try to struggle into life.
Elation grows from this food, it is fulfilling one. Knowing now to weave together life with life, without loss. To nourish one's own need for inspiration. The beauty can be summoned back again and again, living in its own joy. We ration ourselves too poorly in this...
Rating: - One of My Favorite Movies
I absolutely loved it because it's an adult love story told from an adult point of view. The two main characters have strong personalities, and because of their occupations, are used to being in control. They learn that in life, sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow. The cinematography is perfect; you only see what needs to be on screen, nothing superfuous. The same can be said about the dialogue. Sally Potter was involved in every aspect of her film: directing, writing, acting, dancing, writing music/lyrics, and singing. There is great chemistry between the two main characters and the music and dancing are wonderful. You won't be sorry you purchased it. The music will make you raptuous and the dancing will inspire you to dance.
Rating: - Choregraphy is great!
The film as a film justly explores the politics of tango and is well directed. The film may lead the uninitiated to believe a student could reach such an advanced level of dance in such a short period of time. However . . . it is a film produced as entertainment.
All in all - for tango lovers, the dance scenes are worth watching again and again.
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