| Tangos The Exile of Gardel |
| Genre: | Art/Foreign |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 125 |
| Country: | France/Argentina |
| Credits: | Directed by Fernando Solanas |
Synopsis
This elegant, romantic musical is the story of a group of Argentinian political exiles in Paris producing a Tango-dy - a Argentinian political entertainment described as "tango plus tragedy plus comedy." Tangos announces its attention to throw conventional forms out the window and risk a new, open-ended aesthetic, but its experimentalism never interferes with its ability to tell a richly characterized story. Few films have captured the poigancy of exile so incisively, yet the overall tone is joyus and freewheeling, with an exhilarating use of Parisian locations. From the lyrical opening shots of a couple dancing on a bridge over the Seine at dawn, Tangos creats a memerizing atmosphere punctuated by wild bursts of fantasy and surrealism, and keyed on show-stopping tango numbers of dazzling sensuousness. From the director of The Hour of the Furnaces
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