Her Tango

I actually really enjoyed this film. But it feels somehow like either the depth or length of it has been chopped in half. More like a great first double episode in a tv series. I'd like to see what happens next.

This movie could be better if it was scripted more tightly, more alive and with better casting. But no, nothing seemed to work. Terrible casting job, father, son and dead daughter never seemed to share the same gene on a family tree. The main leading actor looked too baldy and too Middle Eastern, the Tango teacher was another story, her tango and all the tango dancers all danced poorly synced with deadbeat music. The restaurant as part of the settings didn't feel realistic enough. The tempo of the going also felt more tardy than usual. A Tango movie should be more excited, energetic, speedy and alive, but what we got here were nothing but amateurish joke. Never thought the Tango would be so boring, so uninteresting. The kicking legs of the female Tango dancer never felt right albeit sexy or alluring.

Low budget to make this movie was one thing, but if everything from the screenplay, directing, cast were all wrong, even the low budget was just a waste of money.

This film starts out with striking and lingering close-up footage of beautiful women and men dancing tango. From there it moves from strength to strength in an enjoyable storyline.

Never over-explaining, manipulating, or condescending to the audience, it presents an interesting, human, believable, and relatable story of an uptight-ish man named Dino, and his extended family, his career passions and worries, and the things that burst him out of his routine.

This film held my attention throughout in its various but never overlong storylines. We slowly learn, through inferring from Dino's piecemeal interactions with his relatives, what his backstory is and why he is in a bit of a psychological, physical, and emotional rut.

Then an enticing but out-of-his-league tango dancer/teacher he accidentally watches one day awakens his passions, but she is far too elusive and unobtainable.

Nevertheless, she has a remarkable effect on him, which is the joy and light of the film. The final scene of the movie is so wonderful I have watched it several times. Great film, great directing, and great script!

A real pleasure and a rare find.

The dance scenes of couples embracing the tango are memorable.