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.
Janet Maslin
febrero 12, 1999