Last Tango in Paris

Last Tango in Paris
by Bernardo Bertolucci

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Actor: Giovanna Galletti, Gitt Magrini, Maria Michi, Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Brand: BRANDO,MARLON
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
Writer: Bernardo Bertolucci
Editor: Franco Arcalli
Writer: Franco Arcalli
Editor: Roberto Perpignani
Producer: Alberto Grimaldi
Writer: Agn?s Varda
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.66:1
Running Time: 129 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-11-03
Audience Rating: NC-17
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

DVD Reviews of Last Tango in Paris

DVD Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars

The Bottom Line:

Why Bertolucci thought it was a good idea to cut away from Brando and Schneider in order to focus on the latter's boring boyfriend I'll never know, but when Last Tango in Paris focuses on the main couple (and Brando in particular) it's a powerful, if somewhat formless, film that is no less candid and raw than it was 30 years ago.

DVD Review: Cinema for the mind
Summary: 4 Stars

This is a very artfully made film about common human emotions, needs, and losses. I love how the sex scenes are made to represent connections between people as oppose to most movies in the 70's would have used some passionate dance number to represent the sexual act. It is very enjoyable to see the emotions in the raw and how different people heal and overcome downfall from the inside. Overall this may not be for everybody, because it shows a lot of flipside of an erotic movie.

DVD Review: Last Tango In Paris
Summary: 5 Stars

I sent this movie to my mother, and she Loved It... She watched it 5 times since receiving it.

DVD Review: Mejor actucion de Brando.
Summary: 5 Stars

En mi humilde opinion esta pelicula marca la mejor actuacion de Brando y en lo particular una de las mejores actuaciones en la historia, Brando ya para este filme habia renunciado a los Oscar ,por esa razon ese 1973 el no gano el Oscar ,aunque fue nominado como mejor actor, es remarcable y unico en este drama en su papel de Paul, lo recomiendo a los q gusten de una buena actuacion y mas si eres fan de Brando.

DVD Review: I'LL SKIP THE BUTTER ON MY POPCORN THIS TIME
Summary: 4 Stars

I hadn't seen this movie since it came out in the early 70's, and I'm wondering how I sat through the thing back then. I guess it was Maria Schneider's bod that got me through the thing. Things like that matter a lot more when your hormones are gushing like some Parisian fountain instead of like a fine wine being decanted. Yes, I'm aware that that's some pretty hokey mixing of metaphors. I'm just trying to say that Mlle. Schneider was hot then, and is hot now, but it takes more than that to get a viewer through this movie these days.

The good news for my fellow geezers is that, after 30 years, my memories of the movie were almost gone. It was like watching a new movie, so there's an upside to those senior moments. I stopped saying, "I don't remember this!" after a while.

There's a lot wrong with this flick, but the core of the plot is not without interest. The main characters test each others love to the max. Timing of their actions also comes into play, and has a great deal to do with the outcome of these lover's fates. I see what the director/writer was trying to do, and if Brando had been controlled a bit more, the film wouldn't have come off as being a bit silly in so many scenes.

I'm giving this movie 4 stars instead of the 2 it deserves because it's fun to watch Brando any place in the world, and Marlon Does Paris is much more fun if he wasn't in this one. I think a lot of his dialogue must have been improvised, and his choice of words gives an insight into the mind and upbringing of this Nebraska boy. I can't imagine that the Europeans came up with some of the earthy language that sounds like it came from a feed store in the good old USA rather than a Paris bistro. The soundtrack also adds another dimension. There's too much icing and not enough cake. Rent it and buy the soundtrack.
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Description of Last Tango in Paris

Penetrate the moody, sensual world of Last Tango in Paris, and prepare yourself for "the most controversial film of its era" (Leonard Maltin). Nominated* for two Academy Awards(r)Director (Bernardo Bertolucci) and Actor (Marlon Brando)and exuding a sexual energy unlike any film before or after, this is the scintillating classic that shocked a nation...and "altered the face of an art form" (Pauline Kael). He (Brando) is a 45-year old American living in Paris, haunted by his wife's suicide. She (Maria Schneider, Jane Eyre) is a 20-year-old Parisian beauty engaged to a young filmmaker. Though nameless to each other, these tortured souls come together to satisfy their sexual cravings in an apartment as bare as their dark, tragic lives. Caught up in the frenzied beat of a carnal dance they cannot seem to stop, these unlikely lovers take their passion to erotic heightsand depthsbeyond anything they could ever have imagined.

Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial 1973 film stars Marlon Brando as an expatriate American in Paris reeling from his wife's suicide and entering into a nihilistic sexual relationship with a young woman (Maria Schneider). The film is still shocking, not simply because of its (sometime unconventional) sexual sequences, but because Brando's protagonist needs his liaison with Schneider's character to remain anonymous, an experience not to be shared but indulged on either end. Bertolucci is also operating on subtext here: in a way, Brando's nonengaging engagement is a metaphor for a certain attitude toward directing movies. Jean-Pierre L?aud costars, but the film is more than anything a vehicle for a great performance by Brando. --Tom Keogh

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