Last Tango in Paris

Director:            Bernardo Bertolucci

Writing Credits: Bernardo Bertolucci (story)
                          Bernardo Bertolucci (screenplay)
                          Franco Arcalli (screenplay)
                          Agnès Varda (additional dialogue)

Starring:            Marlon Brando
                          Maria Schneider
                          Maria Michi
                          Giovanna Galletti
                          Gitt Magrini
                          Catherine Allégret
                          Luce Marquand
                          Marie-Hélène Breillat
                          Catherine Breillat

While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. 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.

Written by  Erich Schneider {erich@bush.cs.tamu.edu}

Source: IMDB

"Bernardo Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" is one of the great emotional experiences of our time. 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. Who else can act so brutally and imply such vulnerability and need?

For the movie is about need; about the terrible hunger that its hero, Paul, feels for the touch of another human heart. He is a man whose whole existence has been reduced to a cry for help -- and who has been so damaged by life that he can only express that cry in acts of crude sexuality."

Written by Rogert Ebert

Last Tango in Paris

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