DramaRomance

Last Tango in Paris

- When you see a love story, it's only a movie. When you feel it with every nerve in your body, it's a masterpiece.

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

Release Date : 1972-12-15

Language :EnglishFrench

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Les Productions Artistes AssociésPEA

Production Country : FranceItaly

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Paul

Original Name : Marlon Brando

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jeanne

Original Name : Maria Schneider

Gender : Female

Character Name : Rosa's Mother

Original Name : Maria Michi

Gender : Female

Character Name : Prostitute

Original Name : Giovanna Galletti

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jeanne's Mother

Original Name : Gitt Magrini

Gender : Female

Character Name : Catherine

Original Name : Catherine Allégret

Gender : Female

Character Name : Olympia

Original Name : Luce Marquand

Gender : Male

Character Name : Monique

Original Name : Marie-Hélène Breillat

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mouchette

Original Name : Catherine Breillat

Gender : Female

Character Name : TV Sound Engineer

Original Name : Dan Diament

Gender : Male

Character Name : Script Girl

Original Name : Catherine Sola

Gender : Female

Character Name : Cameraman

Original Name : Mauro Marchetti

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tom

Original Name : Jean-Pierre Léaud

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marcel

Original Name : Massimo Girotti

Gender : Male

Character Name : TV Assistant Cameraman

Original Name : Peter Schommer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rosa

Original Name : Veronica Lazăr

Gender : Female

Character Name : Christine

Original Name : Marie-Christine Questerbert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tango Orchestra Leader

Original Name : Ramón Mendizábal

Gender : Male

Character Name : President of Tango Jury

Original Name : Mimi Pinson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Concierge

Original Name : Darling Légitimus

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mover

Original Name : Gérard Lepennec

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mover

Original Name : Stéphan Koziak

Gender : Male

Character Name : Prostitute's Client

Original Name : Armand Abplanalp

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-07-18

"Jeanne" (Maria Schneider) is flat-hunting when she encounters the predatory "Paul" (Marlon Brando) in an empty apartment where he proceeds to rape her. It turns out that he has recently lost his wife to suicide and is completely bereft - bewildered and almost feral in his attitude towards this girl. He rents the apartment and she comes back for more - always using the no names no pack drill routine as the sex becomes perfunctorily obsessional for both of them. The question is - can they both remain so dispassionate emotionally as their rendezvous become more intense, more humiliating for her and ultimately completely addictive? She is obedient in every way, and like most things reliably delivered on a plate the sex soon ceases to satiate his desires. He must completely control this young woman. She, meantime, is engaged to the aspiring film director "Tom" (Jean-Pierre Léaud) who remains blissfully oblivious of his fiancée's peccadilloes. In the end, it's going to be "Jeanne" who has to take control of her own life - but which way will she turn? For a film that's essentially about passion, this is an entirely sterile affair with little actual chemistry between the couple as Bertolucci exposes us to endless pointless female nudity, some clumsily choreographed sex and a surfeit of dialogue that doesn't generate steam so much as spray amidst a series of gratuitous nookie that did neither Brando nor the marginally more natural Schneider any favours. If it's supposed to be a penetrative look at the human psyche, or at our animal instincts, or maybe even at our dependencies, then I'm afraid it was all just too plodding, repetitive and undercooked. This just wasn't for me, sorry.