Product Details

• Actors: Philippe Noiret, Richard Bohringer, Thierry Lhermitte, Carole Bouquet, Jean Rochefort
• Directors: Patrice Leconte
• Producers: Tango
• Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000F5JS4O
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #463,131 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge's nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The Judge, a confirmed bachelor, takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul's wife Marie. The three men get on well together, and spend their time discussing their relationship with women. ...Tango

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Black comedy at its lightest, June 22, 2007

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Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tango [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] (DVD)

Tango is one of those films that really shouldn't be as likeable as it is. This 1993 black comedy is Patrice Leconte in Bertrand Blier mode, but without the darkness, bite or inevitable third act problems that plague Blier's films. In fact, it may be the most lighthearted misogynist film ever made, as judge Philippe Noiret blackmails Richard Bohringer into killing his nephew Thierry L'Hermitte's wife. Cue a road trip in search of their intended victim and a series of encounters with the opposite sex where they bond and bicker en route to the expected but not unsatisfying ending. The scope camerawork is playful and a visual treat and the cameos from Carole Bouquet, Miou Miou (in a blonde crop that makes her look surprisingly like Leconte regular Sandrine Bonnaire) and the Hairdresser's Husband himself Philippe Noiret (in a part initially so gratuitously minor it verges on the inspirational) are fun. And there's a great joke about handwriting too...

No extras on Second Sight's UK PAL DVD, but it boasts a nice 2.35:1 transfer.