Sally Potter's self-reflexive film stars Potter, more or less as herself, learning to tango from real life master-dancer Pablo Veron and considering making a film called The Tango Lesson.
The film that we happen to be watching, however, is concerned largely with the delicious conflict between the politics of tango- the need for one partner, typically the woman, to yield to the other- and the expectations of the film-maker to do things on her own terms.
Can Potter simultaneously surrender and control for the duration of this circular project? The question is made more complicated by Veron's desire to be in one of Potter's films- in other words, to follow her lead.
