What the critics have said about ‘Our Last Tango’
Here’s what the critics have said about Our Last Tango:
“Exceptional. … The screen pulsates with life and color and energy that you rarely find to this degree, even in other films about dance … It’s a passionate remembrance with only a hint of sadness for bygone days, and there is enough scandal, bitterness and jealousy to fill a telenovela. Most importantly, it’s another great achievement in filmmaking about dance from [Wim] Wenders and [German] Kral.” — Steve Prokopy, Third Coast 
Review
“Fascinating…a celebration of the tango itself, which continues to bewitch with its writhing, gently jagged grace and torrid suggestiveness.” — Andy Webster, The New York Times
“There’s something achingly poignant about watching the octogenarian Nieves and Copes direct ‘themselves’—while addressing what might have been.… Beautifully choreographed.” Los Angeles 
Times
“Its strongest moments are the dramatic reenactments: inventively choreographed and erotically charged dance sequences shot by Jo Heim and Felix Monti.” Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
“An embrace of the passions it stokes…boils years’ worth of drama into an affecting dance set-piece of love, lust and loss.” — John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter
“As for the ‘last tango’ promised in the title, Kral (a Wim Wenders protégé) doesn’t seem to have the 
coverage he needs; it’s decidedly anti-climactic. Archival footage also fails to do them justice. Still, Maria’s candid and hard-earned observations on love and sex have some piquancy. ‘I’ve come to the conclusion that love is a lie,’ she says. ‘A woman must use a man, then throw him away. Any tears shed over a man are a waste.’ It’s a sentiment worthy of the dance she’s dedicated her life to 
perfecting.” Tom Charity, Cinema Scope
January 25, 2017.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.