Five of Argentine director Fernando Solanas' years in exile in Paris were spent making Tangos-a vibrant mixture of spectacle, music and story, an engagement with the process of creation and the theme of exile. A group of artists and intellectuals exiled in Paris attempt to stage a theatrical production based on Argentine tangos, but are unable to find an ending for their piece. For Solanas, its lack of resolution reflects the uncertainty and open-endedness inherent in life in exile-exile being an experience that can occur both within and outside one's country. His inclusion of two historical figures-General San Martin, who lived in exile in France after fighting to liberate South America from Spanish control in the early 19th Century, and Carlos Gardel, who moved to Argentina from France and became a legendary tango singer-suggest both the attempt to recover history, and the almost physically tangible quality of memories intensified by dislocation. Solanas calls his film a tanguedia-a tango, part comedy, part tragedy: "Tangos is an approach from a variety of angles, a cubist approximation of a film. I express myself very much by metaphor and ellipsis, trying to make a freer cinema." Kathy Geritz