
This isn't a flawless film but it is very good and offers more than just the average "t&a" the genre has come to be known for. Their anonymity with each other only makes it all the more difficult.īrando delivers a stunning performance and Maria Schneider is quite convincing in what must have been a very demanding role. Critics loved it but the American censors despised it and it somehow gained a reputation of being a "smut film." It's actually a deep and provocative statement about two people from different backgrounds who fall in love despite trying not to. "Last Tango in Paris" or "Ultimo tango a Parigi" was released in 1972 to much hoopla. She questions her own love for Tom as she finds herself more and more drawn to Paul. Jeanne is engaged to Tom, a film director making a documentary of sorts about her. However, they do not reveal anything about themselves and the relationship is based solely on sex. While there, he encounters Jeanne, whom he soon begins to have an affair with. He plays Paul, an enigmatic American drawn to France after the recent suicide of his wife. Reviewed by MovieAddict2016 9 / 10 Lost in Translation.īernardo Bertoluci's "Last Tango in Paris" is a beautiful art-house movie that features one of Marlon Brando's finest performances. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.-Erich Schneider Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other.

While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide.
