‘Empieza el baile’ creates a bitter and luminous story with the road marking the time of the narrative and the landscape of rural Argentina as a metaphor.
The great virtue of this film lies in the fact that it has performers with more than 200 titles and many, many years of profession and stages behind them: Mercedes Morán, Darío Grandinetti and an impeccable secondary, Jorge Marrale. With these select wickers, the director and screenwriter Marina Seresesky weaves a somewhat irregular basket, but one that works very well. She already demonstrated in her debut, ‘La puerta abierta’ (2016), with Carmen Machi and Terele Pávez, that she works like an artisan the emotions of her characters.
Although it starts with an excess of shots and resources, the film shines when it moves in humility. It advances with a classic road movie structure aboard a dilapidated van that the protagonists used, decades ago, for their successful tours as tango dancers. With the road marking the time of the narrative and the landscape of rural Argentina as a metaphor of his inner journey, he creates a bitter and luminous story about old age and the last opportunities. About shared experiences and things never said, moving in a very successful balance between the sitcom and the emotional and romantic plot.
For lovers of love stories, nostalgia and last chances
DATA SHEET
Address: Marina Seresesky Distribution: Darío Grandinetti, Mercedes Morán, Jorge Marrale, Pastora Vega Country: Argentina Year: 2023 Release date: 5–4-2023 Gender: Dramatic comedy Script: Marina Seresesky Duration: 99 min.
Synopsis: Carlos and Margarita were the most famous and recognized tango couple of their time. Today, little or nothing remains of that splendor, of that passion that led them to share scenes, travel and life… Carlos lives in Madrid, enjoying the second chance that life has given him and Margarita lives in Buenos Aires immersed in in poverty and oblivion, but with that sarcastic and scoundrel humor that has always characterized her.
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