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Tango
1998 -
Argentina
/ Spain
- 112 min. -
Feature, Color
Director:
Carlos Saura
Cast:
Miguel Angel Solá,
Cecilia Narova,
Mia Maestro,
Juan Carlos
Copes,
Julio Bocca,
Juan Luis Galiardo
More Information:
All Movie Guide
Características del DVD
- Lang.:
Spanish
/ Sub. in English
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Sinopsis
(All Movie Guide)
Combining fiction and documentary, 66-year-old
Carlos Saura
directed this Spanish-Argentine dance drama with masterful camerawork by
acclaimed cinematographer
Vittorio
Storaro. After his wife (Cecilia
Narova) leaves him, Argentine film director Mario Suarez (Miguel
Angel Sola), moves to a Buenos Aires suburb, and begins work on a film
about the tango with meticulous care. At a cabaret, he encounters gangster
Angelo Larroca (Juan
Luis Galiardo), lover of aspiring dancer Elena Flores (Mia
Maestro). Larroca asks Mario to audition Elena, but problems arise when
Mario takes a romantic interest in her. Promoted as the most expensive
Argentine film ever made, this production employed theatrical lighting and
several cameras shooting simultaneously on a specially constructed set in
Buenos Aires. Tango classics alternate with
Lalo Schifrin's
score. Famed tango dancers appear onscreen in dark dances depicting passions,
sorrows, and the past history of Argentina, including a war ballet, as Saura
noted, "We needed a scene that would be brutal, and a ballet that would be
violent and aggressive, which we don't often see in musicals. It frightened
me. There was a great deal of tension on the set because some of the dancers
had loved ones who had suffered during those years, and the ballet re-creates
the terrible feeling of the period." Shown out of competition at the 1998
Cannes Film Festival.
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