Product: Last Tango in Paris (1973)
Rating: 1.0
Misogynist drivel
The plot of the film is simple. The Marlon Brando Character is depressed over the death of his wife. He gives a performance of grief at the grave side. He goes to rent and apartment and meets the Maria Schneider character. He rapes the Maria Schneider character, but that okay, cause you know that women really like that sort of stuff.Maria and Marlon agree to meet, just for sex, no names at the apartment. Is this maybe Loehengrin and not a Bertolucci film?Of course this makes tremendous sense. Marlon is middle aged and not to attractive. Maria is 20 something and drop dead gorgeous. Marlon also comes across as a self pitying dope who cannot string two words together. In another scene he violently sodomizes Schiender. The plot of this film could only exist as a fantasy of a middle aged man.The climax of the film (an expression one hesitates to use for a range of reasons) is when the Brando character falls in love and wants to continue the relationship. Schnieder rejects him rather forcefully end of film.The film has sparse dialogue, Marlon looks dreadful overacts continually and one wonders how anyone took it seriously. Probably because it came out prior to the women’s movement. It is hard to think of a contemporary director who would produce such a unrealistic portrayal of a female character.