Product: Last Tango in Paris (1973)
Rating: 2.0
NO ( WO - ) MAN'S LAND
I'm a big Marlon Brando fan and I consider his performance in THE LAST TANGO IN PARIS as outstanding but... I don't like this movie. Not at all. Why ? The cinematography is professional, with a Vittorio Storaro who declines the whole yellow-brown palette in order to make us feel the decay of the characters. Maybe it's Maria Schneider, one of the worst actress I've had the opportunity to admire. Maybe it's the screenplay, so perfect.THE LAST TANGO IN PARIS was a huge success in 1972, considering the fact that Bernardo Bertolucci was at that time more appreciated by the european marxist intelligentsia than by the common saturday night's moviegoer. But Marlon and very explicit sex scenes provoked scandal and success. It's fair to admit now that the majority of the audience was more interested in Marlon and Maria's naked bodies than in the anarchic and iconoclastic substance of the movie.One can like the symmetry of these stories treating of the relations between symbolic fathers, mothers, sons, daughters who could be symbols for society, death and I don't know what ! Unfortunately, it's not the cinema that I like but I do sincerely respect any contrary opinions.A DVD for the autumn.