Word: tango
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...messages through to the President. Though Rose politely takes them, says Gray, "she would rather dance than anything." When no dancing partner is available, the auburn-haired, matronly secretary has been known to take to the dance floor by herself, dancing solo to an orchestra's fiery tango rhythm. At home she often listens to music, using what a frequent visitor describes as "a really good tape system...
...what seems to be new ground, taking one more hesitant step in the direction of completely free expression. The emphasis on novelty which this process entails creates a strong gulf between a natural expression of sex and the overly bawdy or overly arty films that actually get made. Last Tango in Paris, for example, is a film about decadence, but it becomes decadent itself only in its sex scenes, where filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, caught between discarded rules of decorum and unacceptable liberality, filmed simulations and dirty jokes. The petty sex scenes undercut the excellence of the rest of the film...
...Grande Bouffe, like Last Tango in Paris, is a vision of life burning itself out, but in The Grande Bouffe there is no romantic illusion, no disguised depravity. Ferreri makes his points in terms of acting instead of camerawork and soundtrack. The performances he elicits are often remarkable--particularly the outstanding performance of Andrea Ferreol as the teacher who joins the group--and they are well emphasized by the simplicity of his direction. But he is a neutral observer, unlike Bertolucci, unable to make the impact of events accumulate. Weakened by pseudo sex and juvenile scenes about car fetishes...
Mean Streets doesn't bother too much with conventional metaphor. A film like Last Tango in Paris derived its emotional impact from compression: a wide range of the experience of Paul and Jeanne was condensed into moments of expression (sex acts, for example) which operated like a prism, and at the movie's best, whole characters' lives were refracted and born again in rawer form. Tango was weakest, in fact, when it tried to fill in the details...
...TANGO BRIEFING...