Mikayla Smolensky
This film contains a scene where the main actress Maria Schneider is raped by Marlon Brando. It has been recently told that this scene WAS NOT in the script. The actress was not informed about the scene. The director Bertolucci admitted that Brando and him talked about it previously and decided to use a stick of butter to rape Maria Schneider with. Bertolucci claims that did it for the purpose of art. If you do not believe me, all it takes is an internet search. The fact that the director did this and got away with it is absolutely disgusting. A woman was taken advantage of for artistic purposes??? Why would you want to watch a movie where a woman is literally raped?
Irishchatter
I honestly didn't understand why they didn't supply English subtitles for people who didn't understand French. The only reason I got to watch this movie was because, Marlon Brando was on this and to be honest with ya, I hadn't a clue what he was saying either. The only times I understood what the characters were saying, is when they spoke a bit of English. After that, you were screwed.I even didn't even like the ending either, just because Brando is always in gangster movies, doesn't mean his movies should be all involved with gangster! I mean, it would've been better if he and the young girl ran from Paris and lived somewhere else. Otherwise, I would be given this a 9/10 but instead with a few major disappointing bits, I give this a 5/10...
Desertman84
Last Tango In Paris could probably be considered as Marlon Brando's last great film in a leading role in his storied acting career before he just started accepting supporting roles in his subsequent movies.In Bernardo Bertolucci's art-house classic,Marlon delivers one of his best performances that would be comparable to that of Vito Corleone in The Godfather as a plays Paul,a depressed American who came to Paris after his estranged wife committed suicide.He meets a young French woman named Jeanne,portrayed by Maria Schneider and they both enter into a sadomasochistic and carnal sexual relationship with her.They neither share personal information with each other.But things just get messy and complicated as both want to get more from their relationship which results in a peculiar conclusion in the end.This was definitely a controversial film when it was first released theatrically as it contains sex scenes and emotional portrayal that were considered raw and graphic.But nevertheless,it contains cinematic poetry that one would still appreciate at present while this review is being written.As I have said previously,Marlon provides a terrific performance as a sexually passionate and pained individual.As a whole,the movie also contains great ideas about sex and eroticism.
thederf
This is over 2 hours of incoherence, sophomoric dialog, awful acting, and male self-congratulatory acts of rape and sodomy as expressions of love and meaning. Over-rated Brando is as fatuous here as he is fat later on. He has to constantly look off camera to spout the most inane bloated pig crap in cinema. Rosa was completely justified in suicide from a bore (boar!) like Brando. Her mother could not have prayed enough to save her daughter. Marie Schneider of little talent and no underwear should have listened to the black landlady . . . "you're too young. . ." The audience is too old for this drivel. If only she had shot him 2 hours earlier we could have caught the winner of the last tango.
AD
