"The tango was a sad, tough kid born on the city's outskirts," says Juanita de Carfi, a singer in Buenos Aires whose weathered face and whose eyes-tango eyes-speak to the experience from which tango evolved. Tango Mio is an enthralling documentary about dance as contraband, dance as poetry, tango as song. From its inception in the working-class suburbs of Buenos Aires, where men practiced the banned dance on street corners and with prostitutes in brothels, tango came to be a national dance, with its own Golden Age. But to artists and aficionados, men and women alike, it is in its outlaw roots, which are sexual and political, that tango is truly the soul of Argentina. This is the tradition of Carlos Gardel and other poets of tango who are shown or evoked in the film. Tango Mio is filmed in dance halls and in suburban cafés and courtyards, where performers become philosophers and aging proletarians become performers for the camera. Czech-born director Jana Bokova works in England, where she is well known for her television documentaries that investigate their subjects, usually inhabitants of a cultural fringe, with warmth and imagination. "Performance and relationships are at the heart of all her films...Thus her work constitutes an important critique of cinéma verité." (National Film Theater tribute)