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- BFI identifier461924
- Date1997 (Copyright)
1997-11-28 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom, France, Argentina, Japan, Germany
- Production companyAdventure Pictures, OKCK Films, PIE, Nippon Film Development & Finance, Imagica, Pandora Filmproduktion, Sigma Films, Arts Council of England, European Co-Production Fund (UK), The Sales Company, Eurimages Conseil de l'Europe, Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg, NPS Televisie, Stichting Co-productiefonds Binnenlandse Omroep, National Lottery through the Arts Council of England
- SynopsisWhilst working on the script of a thriller, the film-maker takes time out to attend a dance recital in Paris given by the Argentinian dancer Pablo Verón. She asks him to give her tango lessons. Gradually her involvement with the music, the dance and her teacher deepens. She abandons her original film and starts to prepare a movie about the tango starring herself and Verón. (Synopsis) Sally is in Paris writing a script for "Rage" a movie to be about beauty and the glamorization of death. For relaxation Sally goes to a tango concert and later asks the star dancer, Pablo, for lessons. A relationship develops between Sally and Pablo and eventually Pablo turns to Sally to ask her to dance onstage with him after a split with his dancing partner. (Synopsis)
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- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Sally Potter
©: Adventure Pictures (Tango) Limited
Production Company: Adventure Pictures
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Title
The Tango Lesson (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/7CF2-C091-C70D-B858-7B76-VCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Film / Video
VHS cassette - Video - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsEphemera: publicity - PBS-461924
The Tango Lesson - Contains material relating to 'The Tango Lesson' including a continuity script. [Directed by Sally Potter] - PEY-21
Unfilmed small pressbook held.
view all - StillsPhotograph: digital - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-z9e
Photograph: digital - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-z9d
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Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-830171
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-avl
view all - ArticlesVertigo v3 n5 Spring 2007 - ArticleSight and Sound v7 n12 December 1997 - Credits, Review, Synopsisview all
- Books
- +The Tango Lesson
Work - 461924 - 1997 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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