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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance
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Director:
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Bernardo Bertolucci
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Actors:
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Jean-Pierre Léaud,
Maria Michi,
Catherine Allégret,
Marie-Hélène Breillat,
Maria Schneider,
Giovanna Galletti,
Gitt Magrini,
Luce Marquand,
Dan Diament,
Catherine Sola,
Mauro Marchetti,
Peter Schommer,
Marlon Brando,
Catherine Breillat,
Massimo Girotti
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Duration:
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124 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)64.5
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Plot Summary:
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Crazed with catastrophe after his ball commits suicide, Paul, an American expatriate, roams the streets of Paris until, while apartment hunting, he faces Jeanne, an unfamiliar miss across an empty lodgings. Brutally, without a word, he rapes the soon-grumble stranger. It should be experiencing been hit-and-run sex, but Paul stays at the picture of the lustful disaster. While arranging his wife's funeral, Paul leases the apartment where his to run across the puzzled girlfriend for a series of frenzied afternoons. "No names here," he roughly tells her, setting up the rules of the brave. They ar... e to conceal forbidden the world private, forfeit their pasts and their identities. Paul degrades Jeanne in every possible course, leveling all her inhibitions into sheer brutality. Paul is lickety-split dissatisfied with mere possession of her density; he obligation also have her form an opinion. When she rejects his mad love to enter a warm amalgamation with her cloudy fianc?, Paul finally confesses: "I get a kick from you, you dummy."
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Last Tango in Paris
The recent death of Marlon Brando seems a good time to take another look at this great and most influencial actor. I was not disappointed. There are two great scenes: early on when his character Paul talks about his growing up and the monologue over the body of his dead wife. This is a man at the end of his hope desparately using sex to kill the pain. The sex is visceral rather than erotic. Brando is completely believable and you can see how his acting mirrors life as Brando's own life was becoming messy and unfulfilled. He was still under 50 and all his great roles were behind him (I exclude his work in 'Apocalypse Now' where he gave director Coppola a very hard time - the man who had nurtured one of his greatest successes in 'The Godfather'). The part of Jeanne, playe...
Worth the wait
This film has the intense confidence to tell a story properly. The edge is real because of great directing and acting.
There is no sex to speak of but some genuine humour, freedom, craziness and excellent music.
The ending is complete crap but as beautifully shot as the rest of the movie. It deserves the label of a classic, even more so because it is not to everyone's taste.
Flawed masterpiece
The Francis Bacon paintings subsumed under the toe credits equipment the dull for the sake this beautiful but bleak study of a relationship.
I first saw it with a friend nigh ten years ago and we were both blown away about the power of the story, and past Brando's painfully unfriendly portrayal.
The photography is outstanding, the screenplay full of surprises and there's methodical humour (including at the expense of Godard and Vigo).
Some people value this has not old pleasing, I'd still place it in the excel 20 films ever made.
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