Last Tango in Paris
17,242
Drama. Romance
Marlon Brando plays Paul, an American expatriate whose wife has recently committed suicide. Maria Schneider is Jeanne, a young Frenchwoman engaged to be married to an earnest young filmmaker. When they meet by chance in an empty Paris apartment, Paul and Jeanne embark on an intense sexual relationship that obliterates the outside world each is hiding from. Bertolucci and Brando created controversy with their poignant vision of desire inflamed by grief. [+]
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United States | Chicago Sun-Times | "It's a movie that exists so resolutely on the level of emotion, indeed, that possibly only Marlon Brando, of all living actors, could have played its lead (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)" | POS |
United Kingdom | Empire | "Brando gives his all but just ends up becoming himself. Interesting for it's historical notoriety, but overlong and dull in place (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" | NEU |
United Kingdom | The Guardian | "Nobody makes sex films like this any more (...) in its raw, artless, innocently self-important way it packs a punch (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" | POS |
United States | The New York Times | "A beautiful, courageous, foolish, romantic and reckless film (...) | POS |
United States | Variety | "An uneven, convoluted, certainly dispute-provoking study of sexual passion in which Marlon Brando gives a truly remarkable performance." | NEU |
United States | The New Yorker | "A bold and imaginative work" | POS |
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