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GLOBAL RHYTHMS

The Tango Singer

DIEGO MARTINEZ VIGNATTI
Argentina, France, Belgium, Netherlands, 2009, 106 minutes, Color

Rising tango talent Helena Ferri (Eugenia Ramirez) is abruptly rejected by her lover and spirals into despair as she begins to resemble the emotionally tortured characters in the songs she inhabits with considerable fervor. But what if she took off and started all over again? What if she just left behind the sorrow and stepped into a new life in a new country? Escaping from Buenos Aires to France, Helena begins to slowly recover. Following through on the promise of his second film, the tonally similar 2007 drama Tides, director Diego Martinez Vignatti has once again made landscape a character. And in real-life tango dancer and wife Ramirez Miori, Vignatti has found an eloquent human vessel to portray loss and recovery. "Tango was always part of my life," the director told one interviewer. "The only way you can catch the tango feeling in cinema is to try to be a poet." —Eddie Cockrell

In Spanish and French with English subtitles

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