Tango
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Tango

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by Chuck Markee

    This is an Argentinean film with subtitles.  We recorded it off the satellite Independent Film Channel (IFC).  This film has a ton of tango dancing in it, which I enjoyed, both because it was expertly done and because I like watching beautiful women move.  The story line is almost inconsequently, except that it has multiple levels occurring concurrently and you're not quite sure whether you are on stage, off stage, in life or in a performance.  Everything is man-woman, attraction-rejection, love-sex-romance, until almost the end, when the staging suddenly switches to a very dark dance sequence, which begins with a reference to the Spanish painter Goya.  At this point, I accepted the fact that this was no ordinary plot line and all bets were off for a

simple happy ending - but again I was surprised - and challenged by the end of the movie.

    One thing for sure, they got the title right.  It was all about Tango - which is a very sensual dance - and I was pleased early on to realize that they were using the dancing to express the interaction between the key characters.  In addition, the sets, backdrops, scrims, mirrors were all used to create a kind of altered reality - which of

course the stage is - but it was presented in a way that left you not quite sure about what you had just seen.