Product: Last Tango in Paris (1973)
Rating: 5.0
The Best of Brando
This film is worth seeing for Brando's performance alone, even if you're not a Brando fan (which I'm not, as a rule). He is absolutely riveting in every scene, and makes the most difficult and uncomfortable scenes look so realistic through his artistry and mastery of the art of acting. There's a scene towards the film's end--I won't give it away--that's basically a monologue done with such power and intensity it's downright frightening in its realism. (A similar scene is done by Tom Cruise in "Magnolia" and I can't help but think that Cruise studied Brando's art to create an equally powerful (and painful) performance).Ironically, Brando's role seems a deceptively simple one, and one that could easily have been botched by a lesser actor, but he injects such force into the performance you'll never forget it. See the film, by all means, for an incredibly cathartic experience.