Product: Last Tango in Paris (1973)
Rating: 5.0
Brando's finest performance!
The death of Marlon Brando lead me to finally review this movie. This movie bursted onto the scene with hellfire and brimstone. Bernardo Bertolucci's direction is stylish. His view of Paris is not of romance, but of a dirty and lonely city filled with pathetic individuals lurking around. If you're a prude, do not watch this erotic, sensual and shocking motion picture. But if you want to see one of the best performances of the last 40 years, see Brando in his finest work. This movie shook Hollywood to the core with it's stark realization. Hollywood would return the favor by blacklisting any filmaker that would make such a sexually graphic movie! It would not be until Philip Kaulfman's "Henry & June" in 1988 that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) readjusted the rating from "X" to "NC-17".