Jason Lancaster

Directed by Miguel Kohan

Kohan documents the tango style of music from its inception in the 1930’s Argentina to now. The film follows some of the most famous of the original “maestros” of the tango style and how the tango affected their lives. The maestros practice together and some have not seen each other for decades. The film ends with a final concert involving all the main players.

While this film followed the progression of the music and the performers it was also full of fluff. Most of the scenes were longer than they needed to be. The maestros themselves were not formally introduced, either on screen or through narration. There was no narration to guide the audience through the film and the scenes of the performances were longer than needed. Overall the film felt like a jumble of scenes put together in a loose order to reach the final performance at the end.