Tangos, the Exile of Gardel (1985)
- Original title
- El exilio de Gardel: Tangos
- Directed by
- Fernando Solanas
- Genre
- drama film, musical film
- Country
- Argentina, France
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 16 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A group of Argentine exiles living in Paris put on a tango show about their experiences of displacement and longing for their homeland. The film mixes drama and music to show the personal and political costs of being forced to leave one's country.
melancholicnostalgicmusicalbittersweetexpressivegrittypassionateatmosphericemotional
What happens
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel (Spanish: Tangos, el exilio de Gardel) is an Argentine-French film released on 20 March 1986, directed by Fernando Solanas, starring Marie Laforêt, Miguel Ángel Solá and Philippe Leotard. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 59th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 15th position. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 47th position. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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