The Tango Lesson . Tucson Weekly . 02-16-98

The Tango Lesson

DIRECTED BY: Sally Potter

REVIEWED: 02-16-98

Ginger isn't the only one doing it backwards and in high heels. Sally Potter, director of Orlando, plays an English film director named Sally who's learning the tango from a sexy Argentinean dancer named Pablo (played by sexy Argentinean dancer Pablo Veron). Relax; your head won't explode in a hall of mirrors of self-referentiality--The Tango Lesson is a light movie with great music and terrifically sexy dance numbers. The subplot about the difficult love between Sally and Pablo is pleasant mainly because it is so lovely to see a middle-aged woman living out her fantasies of dancing professionally with a hot young thing, instead of watching some old guy with a spear gun save a young girl, for once. The movie never really goes anywhere, but it's a pleasant journey nonetheless.

--Richter

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