Movie #1016 ........................."The Glories of Tango"

Movie #1016 "The Glories of Tango" was the last film I viewed at the Phoenix Film Festival, the award winner for foreign film, and it was quite enjoyable, and the story was well told.  What a trip to watch this story unfold, since the main characters talk to each other just using tango lyrics! The story unfolds through flashbacks with an  actor playing the patient at a younger age.  It's a detailed story so I had to pay attention to every scene as it unfolded, and as the synopsis says below, it was an excellent patient/doctor relationship that was shown and that ultimately triumphs in the end.  And the tango scenes were fun to watch, as well.  I've seen tangoing a lot like on DWTS but this was so balletic, so steamy, so entertaining,  and it took its time but then occasionally took a quick turn, like the story, to unfold.  So I guess you could say the movie was like a tango , and I found it very intriguing.  I'd give it a 4 out of 5 stars.




Glories of Tango (Argentina)

Directed by: Hernan Findling, Oliver Kolker
Run Time: 2:00

Cast: Hector Alterio, Gaston Pauls, Luciano Caceres, Antonella Costa , Dalma Maradona, Luis Ziembrowski, Rodrigo Pedreira, Emilio Disi, Oliver Kolker, Silvina Valz, Esteban Bortnik, Carlos Copello, Mariano Frumboli, Juana Sepulveda

Synopsis: Fermin Tundera (Hector Alterio) is an 85 year-old patient at a typical "third-world" public hospital being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. It has been decades since Fermin was committed to the institution yet his condition has not improved. Ezequiel Kaufman (Gaston Pauls) is a 33 year-old psychiatrist who comes on the scene to treat the difficult patient and discovers that he is only able to communicate by using the cryptic lyrics of Tango, a peculiar characteristic indeed.
We witness a wonderful doctor / patient relationship develop as we are periodically taken back in time to Fermin's younger years as one of the most popular tango dancers in 1940s Buenos Aires. In an effort to better understand his patient, the young ambitious doctor finds himself immersed in the tango world. Not only does Ezequiel find passion in this beautiful dance but also finds love when he meets Fermin's beautiful granddaughter, Eva (Antonella Costa), herself a popular tango dancer.
Fermin's condition steadily improves as we ultimately learn the reason for his peculiar illness.