
Impressionistic look at the tango in Argentina, mixing dance sequences with interviews, archival footage, and atmospheric fictional scenes. The narrative discusses tango's place in Argentine identity, its decline in the 1950s, attempts in the 1980s to revive it, differences between the tango in Argentina and in other countries, its healing properties, the distinctive roles of man and woman in the dance, and contrasts between professional and amateur styles. The archival foota... (Full plot summary below)
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Impressionistic look at the tango in Argentina, mixing dance sequences with interviews, archival footage, and atmospheric fictional scenes. The narrative discusses tango's place in Argentine identity, its decline in the 1950s, attempts in the 1980s to revive it, differences between the tango in Argentina and in other countries, its healing properties, the distinctive roles of man and woman in the dance, and contrasts between professional and amateur styles. The archival footage includes some of the mid-twentieth century's best known dancers.
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| User ReviewAdley TI like it because it is not talking about tango fantasia but what a life in tango is about. It is what psychiatrist prescribes instead of anti-depressant, it is to make your partner dance well more than showing how you dance well, it is to know the history of it when you dance, it is to know the music (not the lyric ?) when you dance in it. Very down to earth, nothing fancy, only the young kids got fancy and lost the substance... |