Last Chance Tango

(50 mins)

Daniel sees a woman who strongly resembles his deceased wife. He tries to win her heart by learning Argentine tango together.

Background: Every tango dancer has a backstory. Like a love story, it starts with seeing a couple dance tango somewhere, inspiring them to take classes. Then comes the ‘relationship part’ - the time and hard work of learning to dance a difficult and intricate dance. If a beginner makes it past this stage, they are on the road to becoming obsessed with the dance. The writer/director of ‘Last Chance Tango’, Sonja Strathearn, was such a dancer, and learnt to dance tango in Houston, Texas. She brought her teacher, Joan Bishop, to Iowa as her actress in the film, and also featured her local tango community in Eastern Iowa. What would someone do if they met a person identical to another they had loved and lost? Twins with unknown identities was a theme inspired by real stories that seemed too impossible to be true.