Word: mario
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...Starring Mario Suarez and Mia Maestro...
...appropriately named Tango is one of a long line of credits acquired by prominent Spanish director-writer Carlos Saura (Carmen, Flamenco), who in this film views the tango through a dance and image-intensive, minimalist action approach. Mario Suarez, played by award-winning Argentine actor Miguel Angel Sola, is creating a tango movie to be filmed in a studio in Buenos Aires. He incorporates into his work aspects of his own life, including the pain of his recent marital separation from the talented dancer Laura Fuentes, as well as his growing passion for the ingenue Elena--a role played with...
...audience's attention with very little definitive action. A good sized portion of the film consists of dance numbers, in which Storaro takes advantage of the studio setting to use shadow, silhouette, distorted mirrors and moody lighting gels to create a dreamlike, often unrealistic effect. In the empty studio, Mario plays out his romantic fantasies and nightmares, always leaving a tinge of uncertainty as to what is real and what is imagined. Into this world Mario draws the other characters, helplessly entangled as their emotions become prey to the violent expressiveness of the tango...
...film culminates with several gripping sequences (featuring Elena) from Mario's film. The audience is enraptured with the fatal attraction of the dance. Yet suddenly we are briefly jerked back to the unresolved reality of the plot before the credits begin to roll, leaving the audience without a lasting impression which seemed so promising just a few moments before...
...eating clubs furnish a resource for students every weekend, but Princeton students aren't always appreciative of that outlet. "At Harvard, you have Boston, and you don't have to stay on campus. But here, if you don't go to eating clubs, there is nowhere else," complains Mario A. Moya '01. "Drinking beer is the only option...