The Tango Lesson not only shares its predecessor's concerns with fact and fiction. It also shares its concern with time. Potter is forty-seven . She started learning the tango at the age of forty-three, yet she dances superbly in many of the film's magical dance scenes. Everything about age is a crap myth.
Every age is the perfect age, and every dream is realisable.
O.K., if you decide you're going to be an Olympic triathlete at the age of sixty, certain things are stacked against you. In other words, most of the stereotypes we have about age are absolute rubbish. Absolute rubbish, perhaps, but an absolute rubbish that makes the lives of the many who believe them absolutely miserable. Another myth of our times is that men mature, whilst women just grow old. An attractive man is an old man.