Author: Tarantino Luis

There are several movies which include tango as the main character.

Not only the Argentine cinema but also the worldwide one, have taken tango as a culture as well as music, dancing, singing or poetry. Nowadays, several movies take into account different themes, images or surroundings which are compatible with the artistic part of tango.

Buenos Aires is not only a witness of movies such as Assassination Tango directed by the passionate actor Robert Duvall and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, but also of several films that have origins from the documentary and testimonial field.


Embraces (Abrazos), a film by Daniel Rivas, describes the Buenos Aires Fifth Tango Festival with backstage, the stage itself and interviews about the tanguera porteña which is held every year between February and the beginning of March. With the participation of emblematical characters, the film generates a singular research about the evidences of veterans´ testimonies as opposed to the new generation of musicians, dancers, singers and audiences in general.



The Chinese`s bar (Bar El Chino), shows a traditional way in which tango is related to a popular neighbourhood and especially in a place of worship. This is a place where singers, villagers and artists get together to sing and speak about life stories.


I do not know what have your eyes done to me (Yo no se qué me han hecho tus ojos), is a documentary written and directed by Sergio Wolf and Lorena Muñoz. It is based on the great enigma of Ada Falcon´s disappearance (her artistic and personal retirement). She was a great tango singer. She was called the empress of tango, at the best moment of her reputation, when she was accompanied by Francisco Canaro's orchestra, who was also her lover. Falcòn was a beautiful woman who had one of the best voices of the tango history. She wasted her money in jewels and luxurious cars and suddenly she decided to leave everything to go away to a spiritual retirement in Cordoba’s hills for about fifty years up to her death, in total anonymity near a Christian convent. The directors try to look for all the possible data and after a long period of time they found the testimony of the retired artist. Under this fascinating tango legend enigma, people´s testimonies try to express the great mystery of her life.

In this way, tango generates curiosity and avidity on the part of the new directors of the Argentine cinema, something that did not happened for a long period of time and that brings another way of giving testimonies through its very rich aesthetics.