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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Sally Potter (writer)
Release Date:
14 November 1997 (USA) more
Plot:
On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects"... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Exclusive: Ten Questions for Filmmaker Sally Potter
(From CinemaSpy. 27 September 2009, 9:35 PM, PDT)
Moodysson, Kaige, Potter, Angelopoulos and Rebecca Miller set for Berlin Film Fest
(From ioncinema. 13 December 2008)
User Comments:
The dance is the thing. Play on more (49 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sally Potter | ... | Sally |
 | Morgane Maugran | ... | Red Model |
| Géraldine Maillet | ... | Yellow Model |
| Katerina Mechera | ... | Blue Model |
| David Toole | ... | Fashion Designer |
| George Yiasoumi | ... | Photographer |
| Michele Parent | ... | Seamstress |
| Claudine Mavros | ... | Seamstress |
| Monique Couturier | ... | Seamstress |
| Matthew Hawkins | ... | Bodyguard |
| Simon Worgan | ... | Bodyguard |
| Pablo Verón | ... | Pablo |
| Carolina Iotti | ... | Pablo's partner |
| Zobeida | ... | Pablo's Friend |
| Orazio Massaro | ... | Pablo's Friend |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
La leçon de tango (France)
La lección de tango (Argentina)
Tango-Fieber (Germany)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for brief language and some violent images.
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Runtime:
100 min
Country:
UK | France | Argentina | Germany | Netherlands
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:PG | Iceland:L | South Korea:15 | Finland:S | France:U | Mexico:A | Netherlands:AL | Portugal:M/12 | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | USA:PG
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Care to dance? Sally Potter, film director ("Orlando"), did, and fell in love with the Tango and Pablo Veron, one of its authentic Argentinian exponents. Pablo is a pretty sexy guy, and a bit younger than Sally, but by the end she's leading and he's following.(I'm not sure whether they actually get to do the horizontal tango.) In between we learn with Sally the intricacies of the dance as an expression of culture as well as personal affinity. There's not much of a story (a year in the life of an original and talented art film maker)but the Paris and especially Buenos Aires settings are evocative - the latter seems frozen in the 40s, when the economic tide went out for Argentina. No, the dance is the thing. Remember Zorba? "A Greek man dances for his soul." Sally dances like a moth drawn to a candle, but wears asbestos underwear and gets an interesting movie out of it. The black and white photography is luminous and completely appropriate, and the soundtrack a treasure trove of Tangos. Recommended for those interested in "romance" ie vertical and horizontal tangos though as I said the latter is merely hinted at. Not a film for people who want a compelling story.