Product: Last Tango in Paris (1973)
Rating: 5.0
Brando makes this film worth seeing
I give Last Tango in Paris five stars solely on the strength of Marlon Brando's performance. When he's not on screen, you miss him - - although that's the case in his films when he's "on," like he is here. The scene where Paul's sitting next to his wife's body - - amazing! That must be, like, textbook stuff for all actors since. I especially dug how he worked his own life into the script - like where Paul's talking about his family. And it was really cool how he worked his film characters in there too, i.e., "he was a boxer, but he didn't do so well..." Clever, clever, clever.One of the (many) things that makes Brando such an incredible actor is the way that so many of his performances seem to be intertwined. Like, you'll see something in one of his films, that reminds you of one of his others. In Last Tango, the scene where he's playing with the lampshade made me think of the paper lantern over the light bulb in A Streetcar Named Desire.