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Sally Potter (writer)
Release Date:
14 November 1997 (USA)
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Plot:
On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects"...
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 3 wins
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(3 articles)
Exclusive: Ten Questions for Filmmaker Sally Potter
(From CinemaSpy. 27 September 2009, 9:35 PM, PDT)
Moodysson, Kaige, Potter, Angelopoulos and Rebecca Miller set for Berlin Film Fest
(From ioncinema. 13 December 2008)
(From CinemaSpy. 27 September 2009, 9:35 PM, PDT)
Moodysson, Kaige, Potter, Angelopoulos and Rebecca Miller set for Berlin Film Fest
(From ioncinema. 13 December 2008)
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Self-indulgent and embarrassingly bad
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sally Potter | ... | Sally | |
| Morgane Maugran | ... | Red Model | |
| Géraldine Maillet | ... | Yellow Model | |
| Katerina Mechera | ... | Blue Model | |
| David Toole | ... | Fashion Designer | |
| George Yiasoumi | ... | Photographer | |
| Michele Parent | ... | Seamstress | |
| Claudine Mavros | ... | Seamstress | |
| Monique Couturier | ... | Seamstress | |
| Matthew Hawkins | ... | Bodyguard | |
| Simon Worgan | ... | Bodyguard | |
| Pablo Verón | ... | Pablo | |
| Carolina Iotti | ... | Pablo's partner | |
| Zobeida | ... | Pablo's Friend | |
| Orazio Massaro | ... | Pablo's Friend |
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Rated PG for brief language and some violent images.
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100 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Australia:PG |
Iceland:L |
South Korea:15 |
Finland:S |
France:U |
Mexico:A |
Netherlands:AL |
Portugal:M/12 |
Sweden:7 |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:PG |
USA:PG
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Probably encouraged by admirers of her much-better "Orlando", Potter here delivers a vehicle for herself in the worst way: she writes, directs, stars, and actually co-writes the music, including a mawkish love song. The film strongly resembles a high school or college project by a teenager convinced that her own intimate loves and melodramatic obsessions are as fascinating to us as to her. But Potter's character is as unsympathetic as the object of her romantic obsession is unlikable, and the whole film is an embarrassing display of narcissism masquerading as a celebration of the tango. Perhaps if she hadn't cast herself it might have worked. She just can't act, whether playing herself or not. Pretentious, over-ambitious, dull, and silly.