Tango (1993)
Country: FR
Technical: col 90m
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Richard Bohringer, Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Miou-Miou
Synopsis:
A man who murders his unfaithful wife is acquitted by a judge and later called upon to perform a similar function for the latter's nephew.
Review:
Black comedy along the lines of the contemporaneous Wild Target. Whether you find it funny will probably depend on your sex, so reductive is its attitude to women, a trait discernible in a number of the writer-director's films. The splendid cast is largely wasted and walks through its paces, with the exception of Noiret who overacts slightly, but Leconte's sparkling dialogue affords some pleasures and he knows how to stage screen action with elegance and style. A gallic Thelma and Louise it ain't - though it might want to be: the final conciliation on the part of Miou-Miou's character is particularly hard to swallow, and the nail in the coffin of any claim to gender politicking.
Country: FR
Technical: col 90m
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Richard Bohringer, Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Miou-Miou
Synopsis:
A man who murders his unfaithful wife is acquitted by a judge and later called upon to perform a similar function for the latter's nephew.
Review:
Black comedy along the lines of the contemporaneous Wild Target. Whether you find it funny will probably depend on your sex, so reductive is its attitude to women, a trait discernible in a number of the writer-director's films. The splendid cast is largely wasted and walks through its paces, with the exception of Noiret who overacts slightly, but Leconte's sparkling dialogue affords some pleasures and he knows how to stage screen action with elegance and style. A gallic Thelma and Louise it ain't - though it might want to be: the final conciliation on the part of Miou-Miou's character is particularly hard to swallow, and the nail in the coffin of any claim to gender politicking.
Country: FR
Technical: col 90m
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Richard Bohringer, Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Miou-Miou
Synopsis:
A man who murders his unfaithful wife is acquitted by a judge and later called upon to perform a similar function for the latter's nephew.
Review:
Black comedy along the lines of the contemporaneous Wild Target. Whether you find it funny will probably depend on your sex, so reductive is its attitude to women, a trait discernible in a number of the writer-director's films. The splendid cast is largely wasted and walks through its paces, with the exception of Noiret who overacts slightly, but Leconte's sparkling dialogue affords some pleasures and he knows how to stage screen action with elegance and style. A gallic Thelma and Louise it ain't - though it might want to be: the final conciliation on the part of Miou-Miou's character is particularly hard to swallow, and the nail in the coffin of any claim to gender politicking.