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More hot tango action for you tangueros – yes, I know you’re out there – from Geraldine Rojas y Javier Rodriguez:
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Previous tangotastic post here.
Yes, we are here!
Finnish film-maker Aki Kaurismaki has a theory about tango
and it can be found here:
http://nonblog.typepad.com/the_nonbloggish_blog/2004/04/tango_and_the_f.html
Finns invented the tango? Certainly they have the necessary melancholy, but do they have the style? Frankly I don’t think so. I’ll admit though that my only experience of Finns – drinking themselves joylessly into oblivion on a Friday evening in St Petersburg, where they head at the weekend because the booze is cheap – perhaps prejudices me against them.
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