Modern Tango World #5 (Mexico)

Tango Movie Review
Tango Pasión
Produced by Kordula Hildebrandt
Screenplay by Nadja Naumann
Released by Hildebrandt Film
Berlin is a tango world in itself. Many consider it to be the
world’s second largest tango scene after Argentina’s Rio
de la Plata region. This sensitive documentary by Kordula
Hildebrandt tells the story of Berlin and its tango passion
like none other.
The film is rough and almost brutal in some parts, sensual
and full of warmth in some other parts. Tango Pasión is
a masterful collection of private stories intertwined with
the beautiful Berlin scenery. Like a foreigner who walks
in a milonga for the first time, you begin to see and hear
things that at first do not seem to have any connection.
After a few minutes, each part finds its own place in the
marvelous mosaic designed by Hildebrandt and by the
music itself.
Dancers, musicians and teachers tell their life stories. They
describe how they integrate tango in their lives and express
the music and dance, which sound different when
put into words. This externalization only plunges the
viewer to question himself in order to explore the life
that we have given to the dance and its music.
Alexandru Eugen Cristea
More than its contents, the documentary seems to have an internal rhythm of itself, like a blank verse. Sometimes,
in the way each story follows the next one, the music and colors of all these separated lives that have
been brought together by the love of tango. It gets to your heart and makes you not only desire to visit
Berlin and be a part of its tango life, and find out more about their dance and the music.
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