Last Tango In Paris (1972)


Marlon Brando           Paul
Maria Schneider         Jeanne
Darling Legitimus       Concierge
Jean-Pierre Leaud       Tom
Catherine Sola (II)     Television Script Girl
Mauro Marchetti (II)    Television Cameraman
Dan Diament             Television Sound Engineer
Peter Schommer          Television Assistant Cameraman
Catherine Allegret      Catherine
Marie-Helene Breillat   Monique
Catherine Breillat      Mouchette
Massimo Girotti         Marcel

Directed by:            Bernardo Bertolucci
Produced by:            Alberto Grimaldi


A middle-aged American man, tormented by his wife's suicide, drowns out his dark feelings by engaging 
in a torrid sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman he meets in a vacant Paris flat.

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While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious 
American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, 
passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects 
their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film 
director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.

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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-complaint 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 his 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."