Tango aka Tango, no me dejes nunca
Carlos Saura’s Tango, from 1998, is a backstage musical with a techy overlay and a political undertow. It’s meta this, that and the other, which distracts from the simplicity of what’s on offer to some extent. Which is… an old-fashioned Fred Astaire-style musical. Nothing wrong with a Fred Astaire musical, as long as the dancing is filmed properly, which it is. Miguel Ángel Solá stars, as the injured director licking his wounds after a recent car accident and relationship break-up with his star dancer, Laura Fuentes (Cecilia Narova). Mario Suárez is now putting together a new show, one that he wants to do his way – political, challenging, artistic – though the money men are trying … Read more
