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DiscountDelight - Tango Lesson
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List Price: $21.96
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: David Toole, Howard Lee, Fabian Salas, Matthew Hawkins
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0043396260238
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 0767800958
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 1999-03-16
Running Time: 101
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1997-11-14
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Summary: Save your Money!!!
Comment: If you're one of those who likes to see 'artsy' films for the sake of conversation, by all means check this oddball out. If, however, you want to watch a movie to be entertained or to appreciate Tango, be advised: This movie absolutely sucked. Potter was uninspiring and passionless, her love interest was self-centered and whiny, and what was up with the legless midget shooting horrific looking models in the color shots??? In a word, the whole thing was terrible. Even the Tango wasn't very good in this one (primarily as it was usually Potter dancing, and she obviously needs some more practice!)...the one redeeming factor was the music, which was outstanding. Particularly moving was Yo-Yo Ma's Libertango. Do yourself a favor...buy the CD, skip the movie.
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Summary: Want to learn Argntinian Tango? Watch this over & over.
Comment: 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!
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Summary: Nice tango...bad story
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Salute to the dance...
Comment: 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...
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Summary: One of My Favorite Movies
Comment: 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.
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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 Keogh
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