Assassination Tango
Starring: Robert Duvall, Rubén Blades, Kathy Baker, Luciana PedrazaDirector: Robert Duvall
Studio: Columbia Tristar Hom
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
Picture: Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release: May 4th 2004
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DVD Review
Robert Duvall's fascination with tango finds its expression in this labor of love, a film he wrote, directed, and stars in. Duvall plays a professional hit man on a job in Argentina. Forced to kill time instead of his target, he learns about tango, and meets a beautiful young dancer who teaches him the art. Seeing this precise, passionate dance, one feels no doubt it is worthy of Duvall's obsession. The hit-man plotline becomes less urgent as the movie goes on, and the director's loose, improvisatory approach makes for a certain sketchiness in scenes. But, like Duvall's marvelously odd The Apostle, the darn thing is intriguing. In leading lady Luciana Pedraza, Duvall has found a stunning partner--a slinky tango dancer and a beguiling actress. (One has no doubt she is worthy of his obsession, too.) This is a film from the "uneven" file, but like many such movies, it has its attractions. --Robert Horton
User Reviews
A journey to tango `s antipodes! - Rating: 5/5
Robert Duvall has made a solvent work with this picture whose commercial hook would seem another additional thriller. This motive is just a pretext, a real invitation to that magic and mysterious tour: tango's world.
The erotic cadences, the sublime movements, the powerful expressiveness, love and hate: a way of living through a musical genre, plenty of anecdotes and sinister fascination. The tango is memory and passion, the perfect combination of light and shadow. The fusion of the couple, wild and captivating, hard to evade and easy to engage us.
The plot will follow the classic style: Duvall is a hired mercenary. He will be sent from New York to Buenos Aires to pay a painful debt. But the fascinating portrait made by Duvall is unique, very personal and warmth, through smart dialogues and a very well assembled script , that will capture your interest.
There are certain edition problems and unnecessary concessions, that avoid to know a little more about this retired General; may be a flash back would have been enough; and that is why I guess this was not the main intention of Duvall; he wants to focus about the tango, and the crime won't be but the frame of the dramatis personae.
He is a beloved father behind his job. And the cast is fine; a human portrait and an invitation to enjoy this art dance.
Looking for info on some music from this movie. - Rating: 4/5
Hi people!
I liked this movie, but more as "pinceladas", brushstrokes of buenos aires and tango, rather than as a movie itself. I enjoyed plenty the dialogues but I see it as a documentary, and I do not worry about the plot.
I actually wanted to leave this review to see if someone can help me figure out what is the choral piece, with children voices that comes when he goes to the elementary school looking for her, where she is shooting a commercial.
I am DYING to understand what it is. I am from Argentina and I cannot recognize what they are saying, but I think it is Latin, I think they are saying "ora pro nobis" (pray for us) is part of the MASS, but I don't remember which one!
I read over and over the music list at the end of the credits and I do not think is there!
PLEASE HELP! I am HAUNTED by it!
Thanks!
Mariana -margaritamiau@hotmail.com
Nice relaxed mixutre of killing and loving. A lot like life. - Rating: 5/5
Gotta go with the flow with this movie. Sure Duvall and Pedraza have something going in real life. That's what makes so many of the scenes--nice, relaxed, drinking coffe and getting to know each other--so comfortable. And something no one else mentions in their reviews; these two have a platonic love affair--he remains emotionally faithful to his Brooklyn girlfriend and her daughter. The episode with the "demimondienne" [NOT prostitute. Get real!] was physical but...note! he wants her to call him "papito:" daddy. He wants a connection, a feeling that someone depends on him, wants him, needs him. There's more to this movie than one might think. By the way: I'm writing this having had a nice cigar, a brandy, and listening to many tangos on my CD changer while my wife is at her ladies club. Feeling very nostalgic and fine. Maybe now you get the message. A fine movie.
ASSASINATION TANGO - Rating: 5/5
ANOTHER WONDERFUL MOVIE BY SUPER ACTOR ROBERT DUVALL, SHOWING THE ESSENCE OF TANGO IN ARGENTINA, WITH MARVELOUS DANCERS OF TANGO, A GREAT STORY, A SUPERB SCREEN PLAY AND CINEMATOGRAPHY.SHOW ALSO HOW AN INTELLIGENT AMERICAN GETS TO UNDERSTAND MANY OF THE CARACHTERISTICS OF ARGENTINIAN CULTURE. WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHY. I WOULD GIVE FIVE STARS.
It's a given. - Rating: 4/5
Uhohh. Now my ears are green.
I'm sorry. I've wasted your time.
But he said it wasn't our fault.
