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Last Tango in Paris (1972)

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Reviews Counted:26

Fresh:21

Rotten:5

Average Rating:7.8/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Originally famed for its sexual frankness, Bernardo Bertolucci's LAST TANGO IN PARIS has managed to endure due to its sophisticated storytelling and brave lead performances. Marlon Brando... Originally famed for its sexual frankness, Bernardo Bertolucci's LAST TANGO IN PARIS has managed to endure due to its sophisticated storytelling and brave lead performances. Marlon Brando incorporated details from his own life into the character of Paul, the globetrotting American who finally settled into a marriage and proprietorship of a fleabag hotel in Paris. But when his wife commits suicide, Paul goes into an existential tailspin. One day, while wandering through an apartment that is available for rent, he encounters Jeanne (Maria Schneider), a lovely Parisian girl (she's 20 to Paul's 45) who is also viewing the apartment. The two become intimate and have a heated affair, carried on without names, in the apartment where they first met. While Paul clearly hopes to forget about his wife, Jeanne is simply overwhelmed by her fiancé (Jean-Pierre Leaud, in a somewhat Bertolucci-satirizing role), a filmmaker who wants her to be his subject and inspiration. Nothing is taboo in their relationship, but confrontation comes when Paul breaks the spell of impersonality. Brando's monologue beside his dead wife has sent many a film student into a paroxysm of pleasure in this groundbreaking erotic drama from acclaimed director Bertolucci (THE CONFORMIST, THE LAST EMPEROR). [More]

Starring: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Darling Legitimus

Starring: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Darling Legitimus, Catherine Sola, Mauro Marchetti, Dan Diament, Massimo Girotti

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Screenwriter: Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Arcalli
Composer: Gato Barbieri
Producer: Alberto Grimaldi

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03/09/08
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Brando gives his all but just ends up becoming himself. Interesting for it's historical notoriety, but overlong and dull in places.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
12/07/07
Helen OHara
Helen OHara
Empire Magazine

An uneven, convoluted, certainly dispute-provoking study of sexual passion in which Marlon Brando gives a truly remarkable performance.

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12/07/07
Variety Staff
Variety Staff
Variety
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Not to be missed.

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12/07/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The operatic extravagance of Bernardo Bertolucci's style has emerged more clearly since this 1972 drama, which still managed to seem vaguely naturalistic in the midst of its extravagant camera moves and eccentric construction.

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12/07/07
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial drama is actually a dark, torrid masterpiece about love and grief.

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07/17/07
Jamie Russell
Jamie Russell
BBC

Nobody makes sex films like this any more.

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07/14/07
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

It’s Brando’s film: his monologues devastate.

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06/24/06
Dave Calhoun
Dave Calhoun
Time Out

Ah, for the days when real grown-ups made erotic films.

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12/09/05
Rob Vaux
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

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07/14/05
Emanuel Levy
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Seamy, atmospheric Brando as directed by Bertolucci.

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06/15/05
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
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01/27/05
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

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01/13/05
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

Brando's eerily unaffected performance is one his most mesmerisng.

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08/20/04
Dan Lybarger
Dan Lybarger
Nitrate Online

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08/01/04
Kit Bowen
Kit Bowen
Hollywood.com

One of Brando's great acting performances.

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07/12/04
Dennis Schwartz
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09/02/03
Dan Jardine
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07/08/03
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com

The movie is sad, but it's also hugely funny, occasionally when it doesn't mean to be.

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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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Brando is interesting here, as usual, but much of the film is repetitious, as we explore the unspoken past of Brando and present of Schneider.

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05/11/03
Christopher Null
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