Word: tango
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bertolucci has always been less interested in telling a predictably coherent story than in evoking strong feelings. His political epics (The Conformist, The Last Emperor) are really interior melodramas about small people overwhelmed by sweeping events; his intimate studies of sexual desperation (Last Tango in Paris, The Sheltering Sky) are really about the places -- Paris apartments or the depths of the Sahara -- where troubled people get lost. Little Buddha is a story of quite small people, three modern kids, who rise to great spiritual demands, and of Jesse's parents, who come to terms with truths that are much greater...
...wears her hair short and likes tailored clothing. She has what is arguably the best scene in the film. During a carnival masquerade in the town, Violeta dresses in Fernando's uniform and the sisters dress Fernando as a French maid. Violeta leads Fernando in a lascivious, passionate, hilarious tango, much better than Al Pacino's in "Scent of a Woman." She then takes Fernando to a barn and h as her way with...
...Hanrahan, in the liner notes to this set, writes that there "are few other cases in modern music of a musician inheriting a musical tradition [tango] growing so moribund in its structure and mannerisms, and growing so stiff in its political implications and social function, who so singlehandedly transformed it into a breathing, complex, sensual and powerful music." Even such generous praise is understated; Piazzolla's impact and importance reach far beyond his work in and influence on tango, moving towards a redefinition of the depths of the emotion that can be reached through music...
From the eerie, lurching dissonance of "Tanguedia III," the first track on Tango: Zero Hour, these discs are true gems. Incidentally, Piazzolla said of Tango: Zero Hour that "[t]his is absolutely the greatest record I've made in my entire life. We gave our souls to this record." It's hard to argue: Tango: Zero Hour combines excitement and full-bodied intensity with a series of lush, mournful tunes that are as painfully beautiful as anything on vinyl...
...says: "Suffer, motherfucker, this is the tango...