Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi
A middle-aged American man, tormented by his wife's suicide, drowns out his dark feelings by engaging in a torrid sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman he meets in a vacant Paris flat.
DVD Release Date: October 14, 2003
Stats: 1,138 reviews
"last tango in paris" is marlon brando's self-reviving strike before he officially steps into his senile years of obesity, and his character in tango feels literily like the aging version of stanley kowaski of "streetcar named desire": prole stud with a simmering violent streak w...( read more)
One of those films that is often referenced and that any "film buff" feels obliged to watch.
I can totally appreciate Bertolucci's idea for this film. The idea of a sort of erotic rendezvous that starts out as a (purely sexual) series of anonymous encounters with a girl/man t...( read more)
Wow, I expected a romantic flick, but this one had an edge! What I loved about the first part is that you don't know what the hell is going on, but slowly the pieces fall into place.
Damn, Brando is amazing in this movie, he's a pig, but it makes him irresistible.
The only weak ...( read more)
Last Tango in Paris is a pretentious movie. It's pretentious, self indulgent, overly important and artsy, and sexually deviant. In short, it's the epitome of all the things I most hate about foreign art house films. And yet, inexplicably, I love this movie so much. It haunts ...( read more)
Sultry, dark and decadent picture about loneliness. wonderful photography and marvelous Brando.
Un film in cui la regia subisce il fascino magnetico del geniale attore-protagonista, che dirige il film con la sua recitazione. L'incastro della trama non č perfetto ma le scene erotiche risultano davvero ridicole se si pensa che scatanarono allora una censura da inquisizione. P...( read more)
2 masterpieces from Italy. Maria Schneider-Marlon Brando-Bernardo Bertolucci-1972.
"eventual monstrous obesity seemed a clear sign of his hatred for Hollywood," as Stanley Kauffmann wrote in the best of the Brando obituaries.
if only Bertolucci is a French,i would call him the REAL father of French New wave cinema. Everything he did in this,to me,is more french than what Godard did in A Bande A Part. it is exotic and beautiful,just like the country itself.my only problem is,sometimes the pace is a li...( read more)
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