page_title: Last Tango in Paris
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Last Tango in Paris / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: The pont de Bir-Hakeim, formerly the pont de Passy, is a bridge that crosses the Seine River in Paris, France. It connects the city's 15th and 16th arrondissements, and passes through the île aux Cygnes. Français&#160;: Le pont de Bir-Hakeim, anciennement pont de Passy, est un pont parisien franchissant la Seine, dont la première version date de 1878. Le pont a été inscrit au titre des monuments historiques, par arrêté du 10 juillet 1986
context_page_description: Last Tango in Paris is a 1972 erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, which portrays a recently widowed American who begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman. It stars Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, and Jean-Pierre Léaud.
  The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 14, 1972 and grossed $36 million in its U.S. theatrical release, the seventh highest-grossing film of 1973.
  The film's raw portrayal of sexual violence and emotional turmoil led to international controversy and drew various levels of government censorship in different jurisdictions. Upon release in the United States, the MPAA gave the film an X rating. In 1997, the film was reclassified NC-17. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released a R-rated cut in 1981.
context_section_description: Bernardo Bertolucci developed the film from his sexual fantasies: "He once dreamed of seeing a beautiful nameless woman on the street and having sex with her without ever knowing who she was". The screenplay was by Bertolucci, Franco Arcalli, and Agnès Varda (additional dialogue). It was later adapted as a novel by Robert Alley. The film was directed by Bertolucci with cinematography by Vittorio Storaro.
  Bertolucci originally intended to cast Dominique Sanda, who developed the idea with him, and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Trintignant refused and, when Brando accepted, Sanda was pregnant and decided not to do the film. Brando received a percentage of the gross for the film and was estimated to have earned $3 million.
  An art lover, Bertolucci drew inspiration from the works of the Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon for the opening sequence of cast and crew credits. According to American artist Andy Warhol, the Last Tango film was based on Warhol's own Blue Movie film released a few years earlier in 1969.
  After the film's release, criminal proceedings were brought in Italy against the film for "esasperato pansessualismo fine a se stesso"("aggravated, gratuitous pansexualism"). The final judgment of the Court of Appeal (Cassazione) delivered on 29 January 1976 ordered that the film be seized by the censorship commission and that all copies be destroyed. Scriptwriter Franco Arcalli, producer Alberto Grimaldi, director Bernardo Bertolucci, and Marlon Brando were each given suspended sentences of two months imprisonment.
caption: The Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, where numerous scenes were shot.
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