Critics reviews

If the film is visually beautiful, it is also ravishing as a musical–which is really what it is, with its passionate music and angry dance sequences. It is said the musical is dead, but it lives here, and Saura of course has made several films where music is crucial to the weave of the story; his credits include “Blood Wedding,” “Carmen” and “Flamenco.”

The narrative flow is loose but always intriguing and a stimulant for the senses... At nearly two hours, Tango could use a little more substance to its plot, yet the chance to bask for two hours in the wizardry of Storaro's lighting and camerawork is a delight that should be seized at every opportunity.

While Sally Potter's "Tango Lesson" struggled hard for a pretext and kept its director tiresomely at center stage, this film enlists a variety of different dancers to color its different scenes. Eyes locked, bodies tensed, moves in perfect unison, they need only display this dance's hypnotic blend of liquidity and fury, only revel in its dizzying complexity and split-second timing, to burn up the screen.