The Tango Lesson DVD
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Film Details
Directed by Sally Potter
Produced in 1997
Main Language - English
Countries & Regions - British Film
Cast
Sally Potter, Pablo Veron
Genres
Contemporary British Film • Contemporary Blu-rays • Blu-ray • Musicals & Music Blu-rays • Stage - Dance & Ballet • Stage Blu-rays • Contemporary British Film • British Film Blu-rays
MovieMail's Review
Sally Potter was working on the screenplay for Rage when she started taking tango lessons to relieve the stress of the creative process. She became hooked and concocted a new picture in which a filmmaker with writer’s block coaxes a tangoist into teaching her the seductively aggressive Argentine dance in return for a screen role. These black and white sequences are interspersed with stylised colour glimpses of Rage, her film-within-a-film fashion industry thriller, that have taken on a new intrigue since Potter got round to making it in full in 2009.
However, the real fascination here lies in the monochrome struggle for artistic supremacy between Potter and Pablo Veron, as the auteur considers the consequences of losing both control and her heart.
As in any autobiographical story there are moments of indulgence. But this deeply personal drama truly comes alive during the numbered sessions, as Robby Müller’s nimble camera captures the frisson and friction generated by Potter and Veron on the dance floor.
David Parkinson on 18th June 2012
Author of 191 reviews
Film Description
'The Tango Lesson started as a desire to make a film about the joy of dance, and became a story about the complexity of love,' says Sally Potter of her first foray as both director and star.
She plays a filmmaker who decides to take tango lessons while working on her latest screenplay. Her teacher is the celebrated dancer Pablo Veron, with whoms she strikes a bargain - if he can make her a dancer, she will make him a movie star. As the lessons progress the two fall in love, but their relationship deteriorates once the cameras start rolling.
Predominantly shot in black-and-white by Robby Muller, with an accompanying soundtrack featuring classic tango recordings from the 1920s to the present, The Tango Lesson is an intense, ravishing experience.
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Community Reviews
by Anon on 15th March 2004
Chronicling her obsession with the Tango this is Sally Potters first foray as both director and star and shows her talent for music and dance. Cast opposite one of the... Read on
