The Tango Lesson

• Sally Potter: Sally
• David Toole: Fashion Designer
• George Yiasoumi: Photographer
• Pablo Verón: Pablo
• Gustavo Naveira Gustavo
• Fabian Salas: Fabian
• Carlos Copello: Carlos

The Tango Lesson ( Original title: The Tango Lesson ) is a film by Sally Potter, shot in 1997.

The film describes the romance between a writer and director named Sally and a professional tango dancer Pablo Verón. He is also a tribute to the traditional Tango Argentino.

Action

On a tango show in Paris Sally learns that gets straight to work on a new screenplay falters, know the tango dancer Pablo Verón. She decides to take dancing lessons with him. By inevitable repairs in her house, the director is forced to move for a few weeks from her apartment. She travels to Buenos Aires, where he resumed dance classes. On their return to Paris Pablo notice the difference immediately.

Gradually Sally witnessed the entry into a new world. First dance tests in a milonga, new shoes with the typical Tango Argentino extremely high heels, and finally the first, difficult performance with Pablo Verón in a tango show, which almost destroyed the burgeoning friendship between the two. Sally is planning a film with Pablo in the lead role, because you no longer like their original screenplay idea. About the behavior in tango circles in which the man traditionally dominated, and during filming, which is Sally's territory, both involved in a dispute. After a long separation Sally comes when looking at a painting on the idea of reconciliation, the Pablo accepts. They meet up with Sally's dance teachers in Buenos Aires. The search for a location goes haltingly. Sally will turn their film without the needed funds. Dancing the couple disappears in the final shot from the field of vision.

Aesthetics

The Tango Lesson is almost entirely shot in black and white and a very quiet, poetic film about the Argentine Tango. Lots of shiny choreographed dance scenes - among other things a dance quartet and step dancing by Pablo - alternate with well-defined gestures in spartan surroundings, contemplative moments and rather taciturn scenes between the main characters.

Reception

Especially among dancers has become a cult film, because he is one of the few films that deal with the topic at a high level Tango Lesson.

Critics point to a top-heavy and philosophical approach to the subject.

Awards

• Also in 1998, the film won an American Choreography Award.