Tango Salon – La Confiteria Ideal
Where does imagination begin and reality end? How does imagination shape reality, or reality feed the imagination? These age-old questions seem to find a magical space in the Confitería Idéal and the tango, but no answer’ At the Confitería Idéal, there is atmosphere of eternal romance, haunted by the old 20s orchestras of “young girls”, the melodies of the tango bands that echoed between its columns in the 40s and 50s and the dreams of poets who were reinventing the world at their tables. They are all there, with the real joy of those who, in today’s Buenos Aires with all its contradictions, seek to share their embrace, their dreams and nostalgia. The socio-economic reality of modern-day Argentina is felt in each step, each of the dancers’ figures. The Argentinians’ bandonéon soul reminds us of this talent to survive, a talent that renders these milongueros indestructible in their nostalgia and timelessness.’ (Jana Bokova)
Née à Prague. Après un doctorat d’Histoire de l’Art, elle travaille aux Etats-Unis comme photographe, puis intègre, en Angleterre, l’Ecole nationale de cinéma. Depuis 1975, elle a réalisé un grand nombre de films documentaires, notamment : • Just one More War, 1977 • An Andalucian Journey, 1988 • Tales from Barcelona, 1989 • Havana, 1990 • Bahia of all the Saints, 1994 • Mexico City, 2000
Elle a également réalisé deux longs métrages de fiction : • Hôtel du Paradis, 1986 et • Diario Para un Cuento, 1997.
BBC 4; Notre Dame Films
Marcela Saenz
Mark Dickinson
Jorge Luis Migliora