FILM REVIEW :: Tango, Our Dance (1988, Jorge Zanada)

Only 1 hr, 11min. long, made over the course of 3 years by Argentine filmmaker Jorge Zanada; explores the roots, the culture, and the future of tango in Argentina. Interesting alone are the chapter titles:
1. Opening Credits:Interesting shots; spot lights shine on vintage slide photos (hear slide projector clicking), voice over narrative; a converation between narrative and tango (tú). Tango is old fashioned, out-dated, an embarrassment; to be rejected. But now... See graffiti style credits lit up on a dark wall with spot lights; camara moves over handwritten titles (pencil on paper); 80s style computer graphics (must have been cool back then) variety of typographic styles, back and forth.
2. Teaching the Body:Inside a class with Juan Carlos Copes on Corrientes. All men, he is explaining the steps to them; how to lead the woman in a cross. How to dominate the women; how the job they have is to make the woman understand without words...how the steps will express what you are feeling.
3. Tango's Embrace:a woman uses two wooden art models to set up the correct tango embrace and posture.
4. Cured w/Dancing: a milonguero explains how tango was described to treat his mental illness/depression...sucessfully.
5. Intensity:
6. Allure:voice over narrrative, a bit cheesy, very 80s synthesizer music; a man approaches a dark corner at a milonga where 3 women sit waiting for partners. camera cuts to his oversized shadow on the wall; the authoritative gesture known as the cabeceo.
7. Revival:
8. Deep Roots:
9. True Milonga:
10. Live in Me: Juan Carlos Copes speaking about the future of tango; his hopes for young people to travel outside their borders; see more, learn more.