Heartbreak Tango (film)

Heartbreak Tango (Spanish: Boquitas pintadas) is a 1974 Argentine drama film, directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.

Heartbreak Tango
Directed byLeopoldo Torre Nilsson
Based onthe novel Boquitas pintadas (1969) by Manuel Puig
StarringAlfredo Alcón
Music byWaldo de los Rios
Release date
  • 1974 (1974)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

It was adapted from Argentine writer Manuel Puig's 1969 novel of the same name.

In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 22nd position.[1] In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 47th position.[2]

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  1. ^ "Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino". La mirada cautiva (3). Buenos Aires: Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken: 6–14. 2000. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022 – via Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive.
  2. ^ "Top 100" (in Spanish). Encuesta de cine argentino 2022. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
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