A prison guard is attracted to a woman at his weekly tango class. They meet again when she visits her husband in the prison where he works and he is drawn into her complicated romantic life. Meanwhile the prisoners are learning the tango.
Acting
François Damiens' magnificent cringe as the lovelorn guard
Direction
Tango scenes that feel genuinely dangerous, not romantic
Director
Frédéric Fonteyne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Frédéric Fonteyne insisted the tango scenes be shot in single takes to capture genuine exhaustion and sweat.
The film deliberately subverts the 'tango as seduction' trope — here it's about power, surveillance, and men performing masculinity for each other.
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