Last Tango in Paris (Blu-ray) NC-17
Bernardo Bertolucci’s Landmark Film
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: NC-17
- Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: MGM
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Marlon Brando & Maria Schneider | |
Performer: | Jean-Pierre Léaud, Darling Legitimus, Catherine Sola, Mauro Marchetti, Dan Diament & Massimo Girotti | |
Directed by | Bernardo Bertolucci | |
Edited by | Franco Arcalli | |
Screenwriting by | Bernardo Bertolucci & Franco Arcalli | |
Composition by | Gato Barbieri | |
Produced by | Alberto Grimaldi | |
Director of Photography: | Vittorio Storaro |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
The sex scenes that made the film famous are just a symptom of a deep pain and also its treatment. [Full review in Portuguese.]
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Cinema em Cena
Regardless of all its solos, failed majesties, and off-the-mark horrors, even as a highly imperfect adventure, it is still the best adventure in film to be seen in this pullulating year.
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The New York Review of Books
What makes it work is it is grounded in real life. It's a story and a character study with a strong philosophical framework and people that are recognisably human. Factor in superb filmmaking, saturated sensual natural light and cinematography.
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What She Said
A film that loses all interest and is even quite unbearable when Brando is not on screen. [Full review in Spanish]
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Espinof
An uneven, convoluted, certainly dispute-provoking study of sexual passion in which Marlon Brando gives a truly remarkable performance.
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Variety
Brando is astonishing.
Premiere
Rating: 4/5 --
Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial drama is actually a dark, torrid masterpiece about love and grief.
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BBC.com
Product Description:
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).