Instead of pushing through when your imagination is blocked—let go and let Tango! “The Tango Lesson,” a 1997 drama film by British director Sally Potter, is the autobiographical story of a woman ...

It's a brave director who not only plays herself but also sings and dances in a story based on real events. After obsessively cleaning her table, Sally Potter (Orlando) sits down to write the ...

THE TANGO LESSON. With Sally Potter, Pablo Veron. Written and directed by Sally Potter. Running time: 101 mins. At the Angelika. Rated PG. 2 1/2 Stars THAT WOMAN ON THE SCREEN, working out her ...

Sally Potter’s “The Tango Lesson” is neatly divided into 12 short sections, intimating that the movie comprises a dozen lessons in the art of the dance. But midway through this challenging ...

THE TANGO LESSON sees filmmaker Sally Potter as herself, delve into the world of the tango. While working on her latest script, Potter seems to have difficulty concentrating. She becomes ...

Sally Potter plays herself in a story about film-making, tango dancing and love by Sarah Kent Tuesday, 18 September 2012 Share Sally Potter falls in love with her dance teacher, the incomparable Pablo ...

It takes quite a lot of courage to expose yourself, in the emotional sense, in front of the camera, but that`s what director Sally Potter has done with her remarkable film, The Tango Lesson ...

Sally Potter, director of Orlando, made The Tango Lesson for an intelligent audience who can appreciate the subtleties of both film and dance. Why, then, does she treat that audience like a bunch ...

POTTER/C/28OCT97/DD/DF- is the director of the new film "The Tango Lesson," an autobiographical film about a movie director who has an affair with an Argentine Tango dancer.

Actually, we’ve come to the Chateau Marmont, that stately celebrity haunt just off the Sunset Strip, to discuss “The Tango Lesson” with Sally Potter.

The beautifully choreographed romance The Tango Lesson (1996) has its own twist, a teasingly autobiographical hall of mirrors. Potter plays a filmmaker named Sally who has a tumultuous affair with ...