Product: Last Tango in Paris (1973)
Rating: 5.0
passion convicted to death
Paul (Brando) is a refugee from the american tuned up life style and a troubled history, to Paris, where he starts "falling" into emotional quirel between his cold wife and a young experimentng Lolita... Living in a little brothel like hotel his wife own he stands in the middle of the passion driven idle Parisien bohemia, pendeling between his wife, unable of being sincere and the young girl. As his wife commits suecide, he decides to cut the story and let it go for the young girl. His sureness of his sucess is shadered thow as the young girl doesn't comprehend his emotions and can not bare them. The film full of passionate view of the world and sincere emotional attitudes toward the shalow part of the life and unfairness is balancing on the tip of the sanity as the love between Paul (Brando) and the Lolita exceedes the borders of common in a passionate way, not as a sickness and perversion, but pure passion and in search of true love. The film used to be concidered for censorship. The music for the film is composed by Gato Barbieri, a musician whos roots are in the tango as he is a Latin american saxophone player and composer of the highest creative and emotional potential. A masterpiece!