A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 7 wins & 10 nominations total
Catherine Allégret
- Catherine
- (as Catherine Allegret)
Marie-Hélène Breillat
- Monique
- (as Marie-Helene Breillat)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
- Tom - un cinéaste, le fiancé de Jeanne
- (as Jean-Pierre Leaud)
Storyline
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- TriviaBoth Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider admitted that they felt raped by this film and refused to speak with director Bernardo Bertolucci ever again. Yet in his autobiography, Brando says that Bertolucci was one of the three best directors he ever worked with.
- GoofsAs the camera pulls away from the balcony at the end, a crew member and a lighting array can be seen reflected in the glass panel of the right balcony door.
- Alternate versionsFor its original UK cinema release the BBFC suggested cuts to dialogue during the scissors scene and a heavy reduction of the infamous sodomy scene, though the former was rescinded when it was decided that the cuts would be difficult to make without ruining the scene. Instead a proposed cut of 20 secs was required to the sodomy scene to remove shots of Paul smearing butter on Jeanne's buttocks and some overhead shots of sexual thrusting. The latter was also waived following an appeal from the director and instead a mere 10 sec cut was made to the butter smearing. When the OPA (Obscene Publications Act) was extended to cover films a few years later BBFC censor James Ferman waived the cinema cut, and all post-1978 releases (including TV showings) have been the fully uncut version.
- ConnectionsEdited into Destricted (2006)
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Maria Schneider does well to keep up in English, French and broken English
The film stunned me when I saw it in the cinema some 45 years ago and I'm not sure I have braved it since unless I watched some murky video. So much has happened in cinema since that first viewing that it is no longer quite so shocking but still packs a punch. Beautifully shot, there are lovely shots of Paris and the light upon the walls of the apartment but there is ugliness too and there is never a moment one can relax confident that all will be well. Brando is brilliant, if slightly awkward and Maria Schneider does well to keep up in English, French and broken English. As the two mismatched individuals merge together into some sort of passionate but loveless relationship we learn something of the background. Essentially, Brando is bereft following the suicide of his wife, right at the start and Schneider has a much more conventional, if barely believable one with an aspiring film maker. He is played by Jean-Pierre Leaud, he star of many New Wave films, particularly for Godard and Truffault and it would seem that Bertolucci is having a little fun here pitting the pretty boy of trendy 60s cinema against the old brawler Brando (I understand though that Leaud was so intimidated by the American giant that he could not work alongside him). I noticed this time that the soundtrack I have always loved seems to begin and finish rather abruptly at certain points of the film and it seems I may have found the reason. Apparently there is, or was, a four hour rough cut of the film and that it was this that Gato Barbieri studied in order to decide where the film required music. Seems reasonable, therefore, to suppose that when the film was cut by almost a half, the music may no longer slip so unobtrusively in and out.
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Der letzte Tango in Paris
- Filming locations
- 1 Rue de l'Alboni, Passy, Paris 16, Paris, France(apartment: tryst)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $1,250,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $36,144,000
- Gross worldwide
- $36,182,408
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