Tango Page #3

Synopsis: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience. Things become complicated when Mario falls in love with Elena, a beautiful and talented young dancer who is the girlfriend of the powerful and dangerous Angelo Larroca, an investor in the picture. And Mario's creative vision is challenged by his investors when he plans a scene that recreates Argentina's dark years of political suppression and "disappearances".
Genre: Drama, Musical
Director(s): Carlos Saura
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
PG-13
Year:
1998
115 min
420 Views


Where do you get all that energy?

- You joking?

- It's impressive.

It's my whole life.

My passion!

Good rehearsal.

What about the girl?

She's very good.

How long to train her for a lead?

You want her to dance a lead?

You like her?

We'll go all out.

I'm Elena Flores.

Thank you for taking me.

It's a real pleasure

wor291king with you all.

I saw you dance with the Maestro.

He's not easy to follow.

- It was very good.

- Thanks.

I hope I don't let you down.

Welcome.

See you. Bye.

Lend me your cane.

Hold onto me.

And bend down. Look...

the floor rises here.

So when the immigrants advance...

we don't see them at first.

- The ramp.

- Sure, on the ramp.

All you'll see is the sky...

and the horizon.

The sun starts to rise. It's dawn.

Then gradually, heads appear.

Whole families.

Men, women, children,

young and old.

All dressed...

in turn-of-the-century clothes.

They carry suitcases, bundles.

Maybe a man carrying

his kid piggyback.

What do you think?

Nice image, yes.

We start with a static shot...

using the whole set.

You want props orjust a backdrop?

Or plastic frames?

A backdrop with a Rosco mural.

The images will vary

with the lighting.

Front or back lit.

The light can keep changing...

from dawn to dusk.

The light will symbolize...

exile through the ages.

What do you say?

Great!

Now we have to make it all move.

I have some ideas.

Still a bit fuzzy.

And?

- I have until?

- Tomorrow, Carlos.

- And the music?

- A tango.

Agri has such a sensitivity.

A virtuoso.

De Lio always looks so absent.

Look at Salgan... 81 years old.

Eighty-one? Incredible!

My most vivid memory

of this school...

is of Don Leandro Garcia Echenique,

my teacher.

A Spanish Civil War refugee.

He taught me to love poetry.

A stern man, very brusque...

but so affectionate.

He started classes with

"Long Live the Republic!"

"Be seated."

I went to the French school.

My father was a concert violinist.

He taught me theory and notation.

Did you like that?

Yes. Family tradition mattered to us.

Granddad was a musician.

And Dad thought he had

a boy genius under his roof.

Turns out he was right.

Only a few small mammals

coexisted with them.

Mankind appeared much later...

when the dinosaurs disappeared...

mysteriously from the planet.

Gradually, the mammals

spread over the earth.

Mario!

What's the subject?

You're talking about...

You're so distracted.

This can't go on.

I was saying that when

the dinosaurs reigned...

What do you think?

It's very good.

You need patience to teach them.

Yes. Few children move in harmony.

They're still green,

can't control their bodies.

Look...

the little couple there.

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Carlos Saura

Carlos Saura Atarés (born 4 January 1932) is a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. His name, with those of Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, forms a triad of Spain’s most renowned filmmakers. He has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century. A great numbers of his films have won many international awards. Saura began his career in 1955 making documentaries shorts. He quickly gained international prominence when his first feature-length film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1960. Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura quickly switched to films encoded with metaphors and symbolisms in order to get around the Spanish censors. In 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film La Caza won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. In the following years, he forged an international reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions. By the 1970s, Saura was the best known filmmaker working in Spain. His films employed complex narrative devices and were frequently controversial. He won Special Jury Awards for La Prima Angélica (1973) and Cría Cuervos (1975) in Cannes; and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 1979 for Mama Cumple 100 Años. In the 1980s, Saura was in the spotlight for his Flamenco trilogy – Bodas de Sangre, Carmen and El Amor Brujo. He continued to appear in worldwide competitions earning numerous awards, and received another two Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nominations, for Carmen (1983) and Tango (1998). His films are sophisticated expression of time and space fusing reality with fantasy, past with present and memory with hallucination. In the last two decades, Saura has concentrated on works uniting music, dance and images. more…

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