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...musical, based on Voltaire's novel, retains the other-worldly quality of the original, though in this musical adaptation its exoticism becomes laughable. The Spanish (or any of their colonies) seem to live, love, and scheme to the strains of a tango; all of Paris, even in the 18th century, spontaneously erupts into waltzing...
...Arnold is a gem--Roseanne's estranged husband does have some talent apart from her after all. And the movie is fun. Go see it in the theater. But if you see it with your significant other, be prepared to sign up for tango lessons afterwards. The life of a spy is a difficult...
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...
...says: "Suffer, motherfucker, this is the tango...