Naked Tango Movie Review 1991

A lurid recreation of the Argentinian underworld in 1924. Stephanie is a bored wife with an older husband who, while traveling with her husband on a cruise ship, pretends to fall overboard in order to establish a new identity. The problem is she becomes the supposed mail-order bride of a young man who promptly sells her into white slavery. One of her customers is a charismatic killer named Cholo who isn't interested in Stephanie for sex, he just wants to dance the tango with her. This is meant to be taken seriously but is one of the many pretensions, erotic and otherwise, that hamper the film.

Distribution

Available on VHS
Running time 90 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Sex & Sexuality, Mistaken Identity, Oldest Profession, South America, Period Piece: 1920s

Screenplay

Leonard Schrader

Cast

Mathilda May, Vincent D'Onofrio, Esai Morales, Fernando Rey

Director

Leonard Schrader

Music

Thomas Newman