Our Last Tango

We get such an intimate glimpse into their personal lives that the film loses momentum and becomes a kind of soap-opera-through-flashback.

Its strongest moments are the dramatic reenactments: inventively choreographed and erotically charged dance sequences shot by Jo Heim and Félix Monti.

Their endless conflict, so reflective of tango's push-pull tension, should make for compelling content. But unfortunately for Kral, neither of his subjects is especially introspective - or consistent.

An equitable, beautifully crafted document about a pair of married but emotionally ever-changing dance partners.

There's something achingly poignant about watching the octogenarian Nieves and Copes direct "themselves" - while addressing what might have been.

"Our Last Tango" is a combination of things, all fascinating ...

Dance partners, a couple, rivals, lovers, a team, a dream, former lovers, tethered by passion driven by dance. Tango leads to lifelong melodrama? Si!

This creative documentary cast a spell on me! Everything is done so well, especially those electrifying, sensual tango dances.

An imaginative documentary on two Argentinian dancers with a passion for this dance form.

The professional and romantic collaboration of yore is replaced by memories of betrayal, resentment, and bodily decay.

What makes the film so effective is a sense of poignancy that far exceeds its subject matter, making it less a film about dance than a character study about artistic and personal temperaments with a very broad resonance.

Our Last Tango is a complicated story of partnership and rupture, a film that foregrounds storytelling, dance, dramatised presentation and the construction of the world it evokes.