Susana Tango Pial video

Film by Carlos Pico and Sandro Nunziata

I have seen Susana Tango Pial video at the Donna's house. She has got it from Carlos Pico at the VII Festival Buenos Aires Tango. I watched it 3 times in a raw. This documentary movie answers the question "What is tango" better than any other movie I have seen before. The story is simple. Old people come to a barrio milonga, dance, and share their passionate views on tango. Directors Carlos Pico and Sandro Nunziata were able to create a movie as simple and heart breaking as a good tango dance itself. When the very last frame is over, feelings are the same like after the best tango evening, all together: sadness, happiness, and tranquility.

The video was available on DVD for some time. El Pial is a milonga in Buenos Aires where the movie was made.

Comments mailed to me:

-- For me, these were the true images of Buenos Aires milongas. Plain, sad faces. Rough at the edges. That's the way it is. Octogenarian men, fifty-ish madeup women and younger, enthusiastic tourist women. Lots of enthusiasm in the dance. It was a graphic that was forever etched in our minds even from the first nite. Let's see. On consecutive nights, we were at the milongas in Hotel BAUEN, Viejo Correo, Mansion Dandi, Nino Bien, Hotel BAUEN again (for salsa), taken there by the hotel. Also the coarseness of the people's faces, the plainness of their clothes reminded us that Argentina was economically stretched. The dollar was 3 to 1. Thanks,

On 9/16/05, Fred Chu