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   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.Â
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.
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