Stars: Sally Potter, Pablo Veron, Caroline Lotti, Olga Besio, Carlos Copello, Geraldine Maillet, Morgane Maugran, Katerina Mechera, Gustavo Naveira, David Toole

Director: Sally Potter

Summary: Film about a woman's passion for the Tango, she decides to learn and receives lessons from Pablo, with whom she falls in love. He agrees to make her a dancer and she to make him a movie star... Some Subtitles.

A love story propelled by the power of the Argentine tango, THE TANGO LESSON stars director Sally Potter as a director, Sally, who, while in Paris preparing to make a film she doesn't really want to make, wanders into a tango performance and is smitten with the dance. After a lesson with the performer, Pablo (Pablo Veron), Sally embarks on a pilgrimage to Buenos Ares, abandons her film project, falls in love with Pablo, and is inspired to make a new film about the tango. Enchanting dance sequences by Veron and the very capable Potter hearken back to Golden Era MGM musicals.

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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 film-maker 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, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen, 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English, French, Spanish
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Theatrical Trailer, Yo Yo Ma Music Video, Production Notes By Sally Potter, Stills Gallery
Year:	1997
Release Date:	June 25, 2001
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	A R T 151 D V D
Keywords:	Music, Films, Wide, Screen, Lesson, Shows, Tango, Some, Performing, Musicals, Arts, Subtitles
Genre:	Music/Performing Arts