Tango
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Movie Reviews of Tango
Movie Review: Learn to dance Argentine Tango from this movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Beginners - you will have troubled following most of the material even with the rewind and slow motion buttons.Intermediate/Advance Dancers - you will get some good ideas.
Accomplished Amateurs - you will see nothing new.
As a movie, the story line is very simple and not particularly moving, but it was beautifully done.
Movie Review: For those who loved it and for those who don't
Summary: 4 Stars
I totally agreed with Warren of Tuson, AZ's review. It is a great artistic film although a bit editing would make it even better. For those who love Carlos Saura's film, I would highly recommend CARMEN which I like even more than TANGO. This is definitly not the type of film for A Customer from Chico, CA.who gave it 1-star.Movie Review: Excellent Foreign Film!
Summary: 4 Stars
An excellent film, great story line and great dancing! While you do see a lot of fantastic Argentine Tango in the film, the story line is never lost and is extremely interesting!Movie Review: tango afficionados only
Summary: 4 Stars
Wonderful and soulful. Very artistic and great sense of the real tang of Argentina. A must have for would be dancers of the tango. In Spanish with subtitles however.Movie Review: Mixed Impressions
Summary: 3 Stars
I've read others' reviews, and while I'm not adverse to this film, I do agree on many of the criticisms articulated here. I'm familiar with the Latin American tradition of the entwinement of fantasy and reality, but I think Tango takes this to pretension. The anti-narrative structure is still yet a structure (contrary to what the producers intended, I supposed) that imprisons the tango from exploding in its full passionate intensity and exploring the characters' emotional states. The lack of emotional range was a disappointment for me. The detachment from the characters by rendering their subplot as a mere a prop of the pseudo-documentary is a technique I question. The film overly abstracted the human elements of the tango. The running commentary and voice-overs of Mia Maestro and the director were intentionally distracting, causing a detachment towards the characters and ultimately the experience of the dance form itself. I thought that this manipulative ploy made the film fail as an engaging experience for the audience by discarding the human element that is essential to understanding and feeling the tango. Since the quadruple (?) love story subplot is banal and pedestrian, the dance becomes vital. But unfortunately, the finest dancers of the film were not the main characters but the supporting cast of dancers - those dancers deserve to be recognized and be praised profusely for their skill and emotional investment towards their craft. While the choreography of some of the sequences made the heart race, the intrusion of the stupid subplot steals any potential emotional involvement I could have had for the film.
The presentation of the history and art of the tango lacked sincerity. Even if it had told through a hauntingly simple way a la Buena Vista Social Club, it would have been successful and effective. The postmodern pretensions of the production created a bits and pieces of fragments that titillated but failed to punch, surprise, and impassion. It lacked the unity necessary to behold the heart and to encapsulate a well-sculpted memory for the mind. It simply denounced humanity by trying to achieve too much conceptually before it even told its story. I am sure that the story can be told in a simple yet infinitely more powerful way than what has been done, even if the producers of the film are reluctant to tell it in the traditional linear narrative.