Amazon.com video review:
Sally Potter's self-reflective film stars
Potter (an actress and the director of Orlando), more or less
as herself, learning to tango from master dancer Pablo Veron and
considering making a film called The Tango Lesson. The film
that we happen to be watching, however, is concerned largely with the
delicious conflict between the politics of tango--the need for one
partner, typically the woman, to yield to the other--and the
expectations of the filmmaker to do things on her own terms. Can
Potter simultaneously surrender and control for the duration of this
circular project? The question is made more complicated by Veron's
desire to be in one of Potter's films--in other words, to follow
her lead. Potter may not be Veron's equal on the dance floor, but
that isn't the point of this interesting movie and its provocative,
internal debate. --Tom Keogh
