The Tango Lesson
by Sally Potter
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Actor: Géraldine Maillet, Katerina Mechera, Morgane Maugran, Pablo Verón, Sally PotterDirector: Sally Potter
Writer: Sally Potter
Producer: Cat Villiers
Producer: Christian Keller Sarmiento
Producer: Christopher Sheppard
Producer: Diane Gelon
Producer: Simona Benzakein
Producer: Óscar Kramer
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Original Language)
Format: PAL
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Movie Reviews of The Tango Lesson
Movie Review: "How did you choose the tango? I didn't. The tango chose me."
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Tango Lesson" is a unique and beautiful movie made by the director/ writer Sally Potter about a director/writer named Sally Potter who is fascinated by the art of Tango, meets a young dancer Pablo Verón (played by a dancer named Pablo Verón), and dances with him - and as everything Sally (well both of them) does, her dancing is graceful, elegant, delicate yet masterful, subtle, and passionate - just as the movie itself is. I don't care if it is the "Blatant narcissism", "Self-Indulgence or "Self Importance" - they don't make the movie for me any worse and I am fascinated by Sally Potter, the strong, talented, and independent woman.
"The Tango Lesson" examines the mysterious connection between two people, their interest to each other, even if they were not meant to be together. At one point, Sally tells Pablo, "It doesn't suit me to follow. It suits me to lead, and you can't deal with that." The film is also about sensual passion of Tango where every dance is a fight between the partners over the control and victory and both victory and defeat are a celebration.
Summary of The Tango Lesson
Sally Potter's self-reflective film stars Potter (an actress and the director of Orlando), more or less as herself, learning to tango from master dancer Pablo Veron and considering making a film called The Tango Lesson. The film that we happen to be watching, however, is concerned largely with the delicious conflict between the politics of tango--the need for one partner, typically the woman, to yield to the other--and the expectations of the filmmaker to do things on her own terms. Can Potter simultaneously surrender and control for the duration of this circular project? The question is made more complicated by Veron's desire to be in one of Potter's films--in other words, to follow her lead. Potter may not be Veron's equal on the dance floor, but that isn't the point of this interesting movie and its provocative, internal debate. --Tom KeoghSimilar DVD Movies
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