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Wikipedia article




'Tango' is a 1998 Argentine-Spanish musical drama tango film written and directed by Carlos Saura and starring Miguel ngel Sol and Ma Maestro. It was photographed by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.

Plot summary



In Buenos Aires, Mario Surez, a middle-aged theatre director, is left holed up in his apartment, licking his wounds when his girlfriend (and principal dancer) Laura leaves him. Seeking distraction, he throws himself into his next project, a musical about the tango. One evening, while meeting with his backers, he is introduced to a beautiful young woman, Elena, the girlfriend of his chief investor Angelo, a shady businessman with underworld connections.

Angelo asks Mario to audition Elena. He does so and is immediately captivated by her. Eventually, he takes her out of the chorus and gives her a leading role. An affair develops between them, but the possessive Angelo has her followed, and threatens her with dire consequences if she leaves him, mirroring Mario's own feelings and actions towards Laura before Elena entered his life.

The investors are unhappy with some of Mario's dance sequences. They don't like a routine which criticises the violent military repression and torture of the past. Angelo has been given a small part, which he takes very seriously. The lines between fact and fiction begin to blur: during a scene in the musical showing immigrants newly arrived in Argentina, two men fight over the character played by Elena. She is stabbed. Only slowly do we realise that her death is not for real.

Cast



* Miguel ngel Sol as Mario Surez

* Ma Maestro as Elena Flores

* Cecilia Narova as Laura Fuentes

* Juan Luis Galiardo as Angelo Larroca

* Juan Carlos Copes as Carlos Nebbia

* Carlos Rivarola as Ernesto Landi

* Sandra Ballesteros as Mara Elman

* scar Cardozo Ocampo as Daniel Stein

* Enrique Pinti as Sergio Lieman

* Julio Bocca as Julio Bocca

* Martn Seefeld as Andrs Castro

Production



Tango was shown out of competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

Accolades



'Wins'

* 1998 - Goya Award for Best Sound.

* 1998 - Grand Prix Technique de la CST (Vittorio Storaro) at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

* 1998 - San Diego Film Critics Society Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

'Nominations'

* 1998 - Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

* 1998 - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Home media



'Tango' was issued on DVD by Sony Pictures in August 1999, in Spanish with English subtitles.

See also



* List of submissions to the 71st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

* List of Argentine submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References




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