MundoAndino Home : Andes Argentina Guide at MundoAndino
Tango (film)
Tango (Spanish: Tango, no me dejes nunca (1998) is an award-winning Argentine and Spanish tango film written and directed by Carlos Saura. It is set in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
As in so many of Saura's films, the basic psychological love triangle is transplanted to a new arena, not that of Carmen nor of Lorca, but of the director of a production in Argentina that takes up a number of powerful historical themes, from the landing of many immigrants, covered movingly by the soundtrack with Verdi's "Va Pensiero...", which recalls historical themes of rebellion and which are taken up when a danced representation of the Junta's repression is enacted.
There is less dancing than usual in Saura's films. Clearly, he has experts to work with, and the focus on the foot tracing catlike its path on the floor has the flavor of a point newly inclulcated, and yet it is appropriate, and not the amateur mistake made by many dance filmakers of concentrating the camera only on the feet or legs, which misses the whole point of the dance coming from the dancer's center.
Cast
Miguel Angel Sola as Mario Suarez
Cecilia Narova as Laura Fuentes
Mia Maestro as Elena Flores
Juan Carlos Copes as Carlos Nebbia
Carlos Rivarola as Ernesto Landi
Sandra Ballesteros as Maria Elman
Oscar Cardozo Ocampo as Daniel Stein
Enrique Pinti as Sergio Lieman
Julio Bocca as Julio Bocca
Juan Luis Galiardo as Angelo Larroca
Martin Seefeld as Andres Castro
Ricardo Diaz Mourelle as Waldo Norman
Antonio Soares Junior as Bodyguard 1/Dancer
Ariel Casas as Antonio
Carlos Thiel as Dr. Ramirez
Need more information for your travel research or homework?
Ask your questions at the forum about Argentine films or help others to find answers.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Tango (film)
