Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 10, 2011. I'm not surprised (but eternally grateful)that no one has tried to do a remake. Vunerable, desolate, imposing, interesting and exciting...he manages to pull u into this personal absorbing journey like no other actor can. The film contains a scene in which Paul anally rapes Jeanne using butter as a lubricant. [70], 1972 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, October 14, 1972... should become a landmark in movie history comparable to May 29, 1913—the night. Last Tango in Paris [Full HD Movie] (1972) - video Dailymotion In 1997, after the film became part of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library, the film was reclassified NC-17. [22] Like Schneider, Brando confirmed that the sex was simulated. With "Last Tango in Paris," one would think that Bertolucci was more a protégé of Antonioni than of Pasolini! The NC-17 rating is justified. While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Now, i must say that this film is so immersed, so overwhelmed in irresolvable Sadness, that having intuited THAT much about it, earlier today...made me flee. Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2018, What can I say? Eventually it was released in 1979. Ultimo tango a Parigi, Last Tango in Paris / França, Itália / 1972 Drama, Romance / 136 min Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci Read 61 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Richard Brody of The New Yorker praised the personal nature of Brando's role, commenting in his review of Listen to Me Marlon (2015) that, "When Brando said what he himself had to say, it was indeed of a unique value. First of all, he answered the phone, and he was talking to me like we had seen each other a day earlier. Paul later meets Jeanne on the street and says he wants to renew the relationship. The notorious scenes in Last Tango in Paris suggest that Bertolucci is here trying to show us the real sexual crux of the matter, once you strip away the bourgeois veneer. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. I first saw this at a drive-in in the early 70s. Had it not been released at the right time in cultural history, this film would have bombed. Edwards, D., Eyries, P., Watts, R., Neely, T. & Callahan, M., Gussow, Mel. Marlon said to me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie', but during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears. I thought I was looking at the Amazon jungle from Google Earth. But I didn't know that. [32] The film opened in late 1972 in France, where filmgoers stood in two-hour queues for the first month of its run at the seven cinemas where it was screened. 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