Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media

Tango for a dream

Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media February 9, 2015 Danijela Kulezic-Wilson 2 citations

Richard Linklater’s Waking Life (2001) combines unapologetically cerebral content with a sensuous audiovisual style; fragmentariness in the narrative with an all-encompassing breadth of ideas. Another aspect of Waking Life’s internal contradictions is the juxtaposition of the film’s liminal narrative space with the most “earthly” of music genres, the tango. I will explore the contradictions of...