Tango Lesson [VHS]

Tango Lesson [VHS]
by Sally Potter

Tango Lesson [VHS]

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Actor: Naveira, Pablo Veron, Salas, Sally Potter, Too
Director: Sally Potter
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 101 minutes
Release Date: 1999-03-16
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures

VHS Movie Reviews of Tango Lesson [VHS]

Movie Review: I loved the movie
Summary: 5 Stars

I loved the movie. I bought the vhs at original full price. VHS is old technology. I wish very much that I could have it on dvd in the US. It is one of the movies I must watch at least twice a year, every year. If I canot get it on DVD, I will not be able to continue watching it. Magnificent woman, magnificent film.
It is more agout relationships than about dance, if there is a difference. I have heard some call it "self-indulgent." If that is so, please Sally, indulge yourself more; you do it so well.

Movie Review: WHAT A GEM!!
Summary: 5 Stars

My late son recommended this, years ago, and I've loved it ever since having first viewed it on the IFC (cable). "Libertango" is a beautifully haunting composition that stays in my mind and returns the memory of the amazingly beautiful choreographed dance numbers in this jewel of a film. Sally Potter is a triumph in this most personal journey shared with us. Thank Argentina for the TANGO! The world of dance SINGS with its addition.

Movie Review: For Tangueros
Summary: 3 Stars

Tango Lesson
Is only for tangueros - it illustrates a one woman obsession
with the dance. Hence it's quite limited and you must
be very interested in Tango/Milonga to get anything from it.

Movie Review: The Tango Lesson: She's Dancing With Herself
Summary: 2 Stars

Sally Potter snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in "The Tango Lesson". I had high hopes thanks to "Orlando". The film began well and sank under its own weight very quickly, that not even the genius of Pablo Veron could rescue.

Dance movies are not for those looking for a strong plot. Nor are musicals. More joy would have gone a long way here. Instead there is a nagging low-grade fever of sourness.

There are bald references to the Nicholas Brothers, and Fred and Ginger, but these are different days. And if you are going to swipe from either of them, as she did, then go for broke and burn down the house with it.

The camera is unflinching, and Potter looks gaunt and weary throughout the black and white proceedings. Of course this fits into the bi-continental story line.

In the end, if you can project your notions on the film, study Veron, and let Sally go forth, you'll be OK. Otherwise I'd consider this a disappointment, but not the incompetent debacle of "Tango Assassination".

Movie Review: "How did you choose the tango? I didn't. The tango chose me."
Summary: 5 Stars

"The Tango Lesson" is a unique and beautiful movie made by the director/ writer Sally Potter about a director/writer named Sally Potter who is fascinated by the art of Tango, meets a young dancer Pablo Ver?n (played by a dancer named Pablo Ver?n), and dances with him - and as everything Sally (well both of them) does, her dancing is graceful, elegant, delicate yet masterful, subtle, and passionate - just as the movie itself is. I don't care if it is the "Blatant narcissism", "Self-Indulgence or "Self Importance" - they don't make the movie for me any worse and I am fascinated by Sally Potter, the strong, talented, and independent woman.

"The Tango Lesson" examines the mysterious connection between two people, their interest to each other, even if they were not meant to be together. At one point, Sally tells Pablo, "It doesn't suit me to follow. It suits me to lead, and you can't deal with that." The film is also about sensual passion of Tango where every dance is a fight between the partners over the control and victory and both victory and defeat are a celebration.

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Summary of Tango Lesson [VHS]

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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