This is a hard one. It's a film about dance, the tango to be exact. It's Spanish language with permanent iron-on English subtitles and to me, it looks like a succession of admittedly elaborate, well choreographed dance numbers strung together with a plot that seems to solely exist to set up the sequences. Or maybe it's lost something in the translation...

The story is not too difficult on paper. The late Raoul Julia is a tango dancer, a ladies man, a revolutionary. He has a best friend and a female dance partner who are the triangle in this relationship and the focus of the story. Julia turns in a easy, laidback performance that is pleasant to watch.

Argentina in in a period of revolution and oppression - a McCarthy style reform that seeks to destroy the liberal latin lifestyleand with it, art, freedom amd dance. He is forced to flee the country but returns in a decade to find that he is the alien in his own homeland because political upheaval has changed his country so much.

This is my introduction to Force Video and it's not entirely pleasant. I think I've seen artifacts here that there's no technical term for - there's image bleed, edge enhance done in a haphazard way that has no hope of ever correcting the flawed base. There's also conversion artifacts in a horizontal judder that I don't think I've seen on any PAL disc before.

Strangely the dance sequences seem to be quite ok. However it still is dark and murky print with poor colour saturation. Reds come out as a dark reddy purple. Blacks are not very black and they exhibit poor detail - more like a washed out grey-brown. Again the stage dances seem to show a little more care in production.

Very hard to watch. The subtitles are also hard to read with a font that is translucent so they are frequently lost of light backgrounds.

Sound is either a two channel track at 224k/s or a 448k/s 5.1 track - both are fundamentally identical with a compressed sound and very little in any quality that would stress a 128k/s stereo track. The music however is of reasonable quality with an authentic timbre to the instruments.

There are no extras except for a convenience chapter stop that goes straight to the big dance numbers.

This is a very hard title to recommend to people who are not strong dance fans.