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The Tango Lesson - VHS Tape
The Tango Lesson

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VHS Tape - 16 March, 1999
Columbia/Tristar Studios
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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Director: Sally Potter
Cast: Sally Potter, Pablo VerĂ³n

Number of Media: 1
Features:

  • Color
  • Closed-captioned
  • Dolby
  • Black & White
  • NTSC

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VHS Tape Description

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


Reviews from Customers

Salute to the dance...

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...


One of My Favorite Movies

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.


Choregraphy is great!

The film as a film justly explores the politics of tango and is well directed. The film may lead the uninitiated to believe a student could reach such an advanced level of dance in such a short period of time. However . . . it is a film produced as entertainment.

All in all - for tango lovers, the dance scenes are worth watching again and again.