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Tango libre

Russian title: Танго либре
Original title: Tango libre

Tragicomedy – Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Production year: 2012
Movie length: 105 minutes

Director: Frédéric Fonteyne
Writer: Philippe Blasband, Anne Paulicevich
Cinematograph: Virginie Saint-Martin

Movie description:

A prison guard is attracted to a woman at his weekly tango class. They meet again when she visits her husband in the prison where he works and he is drawn into her complicated romantic life. Meanwhile the prisoners are learning the tango.

JC is a solitary prison guard who finds escape taking tango classes. He soon falls for alluring dance partner Alice, and things seem set for a generic mid-life romance – until JC discovers that Alice is the wife of convicted robber Fernand, a prisoner in his charge. To JC’s confusion, she’s also close to another prisoner, and neither is happy about Alice’s extramural activities. The jealous Fernand responds by taking tango lessons from the toughest Argentinians behind bars, turning «Tango Libre« into an offbeat slammer pic such as you’ve never seenÂ ...

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