by Yazmin Ghonaim

TANGO LESSON Sally Potter (1997) Tango Lesson, written and directed by (and also starring) Sally Potter as herself, is the story of a screenwriter who is working on her film, "Rage". In her frustrated attempts to visualize the story in a coherent manner, she decides to break away from her work, travels to Paris and steps into a life of tango with renowned Argentine dancer, Pablo Veron, with whom the character falls in love. Potter recounts: "This film is based on my own experience and exists between reality and fiction. When I first started taking tango lessons it was as a break from the intensely cerebral, sedentary process of scriptwriting... But what began as something on the sidelines of my life --something done for pleasure, for fun-- gradually became an obsession. Then the obsession became a fire fueling a new film. I abandoned Rage and started to work on what was to become Tango Lesson... what started out as an exploration of the dance (literally, a tango lesson), became a series of life lessons....". The film also explores the power of a female film director and her ability to step down from her role as a leader in order to succumb to her partner's demands on the dance floor and off.		DVD Music Books Search by keywords:
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