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Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Young Parisian woman, cast by her innocuous fiancé in a film he's making about love, has an intermittent clandestine affair with a 45-year-old American widower whom she met when they both went to check out an empty apartment; he initiates the sexual relationship with her on the basis they keep it anonymous--but truths are eventually revealed. Although prurient viewers have since picked up on the film's more sensational aspects, "Tango" is a serious movie about sex and subservience that features one of Marlon Brando's finest performances. Angry and raw and belligerent, Brando's Paul is grieving the suicide of his wife while lashing out at the world. His sexual and psychological dominance over life-loving Maria Schneider can be interpreted in many different ways and, indeed, the picture has been dissected and debated by moviegoers since its debut (director Bernardo Bertolucci has even stirred up some recent controversy by saying he may have violated 19-year-old Schneider's trust while filming). Not an easy picture to like--but almost impossible to dismiss--the film has been overrated by some yet is occasionally powerful and sensual, and beautifully photographed in hazy afternoon colors by Vittorio Storaro. **1/2 from ****

It could have been a great movie but instead, it was wasted by movie director Bernardo Bertolucci, who is a poor excuse of a human being. He takes himself too seriously that he forgot he is just a movie director and it is just a movie. The rape scene in the movie was in fact a real rape: the scene was never consensual, he never even informed the actress, Maria Schneider, who was only 19 at the time, about the scene and instructed Brando to rape her, literally. Is it worth destroying a woman's life, for a movie? Seriously? Disgusting human being, and unethical. Some so-called "artists" take themselves too seriously, very pretentious.

"Go get the butter".Moral of the story is, people were very easily shocked by things in the 1970's. Everyone brings up the "butter" scene from this movie, but that's only because it was one of the first mainstream movies, outside of hardcore porn, that depicted anal sex on film. So I guess that merits the X- rating it got then? Well, that same year gave us "Deliverance", which included the first man-on- man rape scene ever depicted in a mainstream movie. That got an R-rating. Is this gender bias? I digress.Last Tango in Paris is a roller-coaster, and an uneasy experience. It dances with the idea that we turn to the dark side when we grieve. Our main character fools around with a young, engaged, Parisian women, in hopes of forgetting about the suicide of his wife and dysfunction of his funeral arrangements. The more he torments himself with the thought of his wife's death, the more he becomes a sexual deviant. When he locks himself up in the apartment with his mistress, so many things start to unravel, and he plays with her heart so badly, that by the end of the picture, he chases her down, thinking that he has found new love when she is so disgusted by his behavior, that she ultimately shoots him between the legs.This is a contemporary tragedy. Pure, unadulterated Bertolucci. This is also Brando at the peak of his career, straight off of the set of The Godfather, and what we get, is one of the most dedicated, heart wrenching performances of all time. He is so broken down, it's painful to watch. It's a hard movie, but it's just really rewarding in the end.

One movie that had been on my list to watch was Last Tango in Paris. It was heavily referenced in the documentary Seduced and Abandoned where Bernado Bertolucci shares how this movie captured a side of Marlon Brando and he refused to talk to him for 7 years after that. The movie is about an American played by Marlon Brando who finds himself in Paris after the death of his wife. He seeks comfort in a French woman Jeanne (Maria Schneider). They begin a passionate affair that pushes the limits of lust and sexual ecstasy. At the time of the release this movie was given a rating of X, but seems pretty tamed in today's world. The story came from a dream that Bertolucci had about having an anonymous sexual encounter with a woman he did not know or never would know. Pretty much every man's dream, pleasurable erotic, guiltless sex. It blends the magic of the French sensuality with the aggressive American attitude. A masterful film and a classic that needs to be seen by all movie buffs.