Tango (film)

Infobox Film
name = Tango


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(with Mia Maestro and Carlos Rivarola)
director = Carlos Saura
producer = Carlos Mentasti
Luis A. Scalella
writer = Carlos Saura
narrator =
starring = Miguel Ángel Solá
Cecilia Narova
music = Lalo Schifrin
cinematography = Vittorio Storaro
editing = Julia Juaniz
distributor = Sony Pictures Classics (USA)
released = flagicon|Argentina Aug. 6, 1998
flagicon|Spain Sept. 25, 1998
flagicon|USA Dec. 16, 1998
runtime = 115 minutes
country = Spain Argentina
language = Spanish
budget = ESP 700,000,000 (estimated)
gross = $1,687,311 (U.S.A)
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imdb_id = 0120274

"Tango" (Spanish: "Tango, no me dejes nunca") (1998) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film 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.

The film caused some controversy by a lavish dance scene between Elena and Laura, that ends in a lesbian kissing scene. This was criticized by some tango fans who claimed that same sex tango, even being common, doesn't have usually a sexual conotation.

Cast

* Miguel Ángel Solá as Mario Suárez
* Cecilia Narova as Laura Fuentes
* Mía Maestro as Elena Flores
* Juan Carlos Copes as Carlos Nebbia
* Carlos Rivarola as Ernesto Landi
* Sandra Ballesteros as María Elman
* Óscar Cardozo Ocampo as Daniel Stein
* Enrique Pinti as Sergio Lieman
* Julio Bocca as Julio Bocca
* Juan Luis Galiardo as Angelo Larroca
* Martín Seefeld as Andrés Castro
* Ricardo Díaz Mourelle as Waldo Norman
* Antonio Soares Junior as Bodyguard 1/Dancer
* Ariel Casas as Antonio
* Carlos Thiel as Dr. Ramírez

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