Last Tango in Paris
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| Directed by | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Produced by | Alberto Grimaldi |
| Written by | Story: Bernardo Bertolucci Screenplay Bernardo Bertolucci Franco Arcalli Additional dialogue: Agnès Varda |
| Starring | Marlon Brando Maria Schneider Jean-Pierre Léaud |
| Music by | Gato Barbieri |
| Cinematography | Vittorio Storaro |
| Editing by | Franco Arcalli Roberto Perpignani |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | February 7, 1973 |
| Running time | 136 Min Australia 129 Min USA 127 Min R-Rated USA 129 Min NC-17 Italy 250 Min Director's Cut |
| Language | French English |
| Budget | $1,250,000 (estimated) |
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Last Tango in Paris (Italian: Ultimo Tango a Parigi) is a 1973 film directed by Italian Bernardo Bertolucci which tells the story of an American widower who is drawn into a sexual relationship with a young, soon-to-be-married Parisian woman. It stars Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider and Jean-Pierre Léaud. The film was given an X rating by the MPAA upon initial release. After revisions were made to the MPAA ratings code, it was classified as an NC-17 in 1997. MGM released a censored R-rated cut in 1981.
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[edit] Plot
Crazed with grief after his wife commits suicide, Paul, an American expatriate, roams the streets of Paris until, while apartment hunting, he faces Jeanne, an unknown girl across an empty room. Brutally, without a word, he rapes the soon-compliant stranger. It should have been hit-and-run sex, but Paul stays at the scene of the erotic accident. While arranging his wife's funeral, Paul leases the apartment where he is to meet the puzzled girl for a series of frenzied afternoons. "No names here," he roughly tells her, setting up the rules of the game. They are to shut out the world outside, forfeit their pasts and their identities. Paul degrades Jeanne in every possible way, leveling all her inhibitions into sheer brutality. Paul is soon dissatisfied with mere possession of her body; he must also have her mind. When she rejects his mad love to enter a comfortable marriage with her dull fiancé, Paul finally confesses: "I love you, you dummy."
[edit] Cast and roles
- Marlon Brando - Paul
- Maria Schneider - Jeanne
- Maria Michi - Rosa's Mother
- Giovanna Galletti - Prostitute
- Gitt Magrini - Jeanne's Mother
- Catherine Allégret - Catherine
- Luce Marquand - Olympia
- Marie-Hélène Breillat - Monique
- Catherine Breillat - Mouchette
- Dan Diament - TV Sound Engineer
- Catherine Sola - TV Script Girl
- Mauro Marchetti - TV Cameraman
- Jean-Pierre Léaud - Tom
- Massimo Girotti - Marcel
- Peter Schommer - TV Assistant Cameraman
- Veronica Lazar - Rosa
- Rachel Kesterber - Christine
- Ramón Mendizábal - Tango Orchestra Leader
- Mimi Pinson - President of Tango Jury
- Darling Légitimus - Concierge
- Gérard Lepennec - Dancer
- Stéphane Koziak - Dancer
- Armand Abplanalp - Prostitute's Client
- Laura Betti - Miss Blandish (scenes deleted)
- Jean-Luc Bideau - Le capitaine de la péniche (scenes deleted)
- Michel Delahaye - Bible Salesman (scenes deleted)
- Gianni Pulone (scenes deleted)
- Franca Sciutto (scenes deleted)
[edit] Original Idea
The idea of this movie grew from Bernardo Bertolucci's own sexual fantasies, stating that "he once dreamed of seeing a beautiful nameless woman on the street and having sex with her without ever knowing who she was". An alternate, but similar idea of this film was to revolve a passionate, homosexual relationship and ultimately scrapped with a famous French actor for whom the idea was conceived for backed out of the film.
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