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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BRANDO,MARLON
EAN: 9786305132912
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305132917
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 03, 1998
Running Time: 136 minutes
Sales Rank: 7959
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: February 07, 1973
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Description:
Penetrate the moody, sensual world of Last Tango in Paris, and prepare yourself for 'the most controversial film of its era' (Leonard Maltin). Nominated* for two Academy Awards(r)Director (Bernardo Bertolucci) and Actor (Marlon Brando)and exuding a sexual energy unlike any film before or after, this is the scintillating classic that shocked a nation...and 'altered the face of an art form' (Pauline Kael). He (Brando) is a 45-year old American living in Paris, haunted by his wife's suicide. She (Maria Schneider, Jane Eyre) is a 20-year-old Parisian beauty engaged to a young filmmaker. Though nameless to each other, these tortured souls come together to satisfy their sexual cravings in an apartment as bare as their dark, tragic lives. Caught up in the frenzied beat of a carnal dance they cannot seem to stop, these unlikely lovers take their passion to erotic heightsand depthsbeyond anything they could ever have imagined.
Amazon.com essential video:
Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial 1973 film stars Marlon Brando as an expatriate American in Paris reeling from his wife's suicide and entering into a nihilistic sexual relationship with a young woman (Maria Schneider). The film is still shocking, not simply because of its (sometime unconventional) sexual sequences, but because Brando's protagonist needs his liaison with Schneider's character to remain anonymous, an experience not to be shared but indulged on either end. Bertolucci is also operating on subtext here: in a way, Brando's nonengaging engagement is a metaphor for a certain attitude toward directing movies. Jean-Pierre Léaud costars, but the film is more than anything a vehicle for a great performance by Brando. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Mejor actucion de Brando.
En mi humilde opinion esta pelicula marca la mejor actuacion de Brando y en lo particular una de las mejores actuaciones en la historia, Brando ya para este filme habia renunciado a los Oscar ,por esa razon ese 1973 el no gano el Oscar ,aunque fue nominado como mejor actor, es remarcable y unico en este drama en su papel de Paul, lo recomiendo a los q gusten de una buena actuacion y mas si eres fan de Brando.
Rating:  - I'LL SKIP THE BUTTER ON MY POPCORN THIS TIME
I hadn't seen this movie since it came out in the early 70's, and I'm wondering how I sat through the thing back then. I guess it was Maria Schneider's bod that got me through the thing. Things like that matter a lot more when your hormones are gushing like some Parisian fountain instead of like a fine wine being decanted. Yes, I'm aware that that's some pretty hokey mixing of metaphors. I'm just trying to say that Mlle. Schneider was hot then, and is hot now, but it takes more than that to get a viewer through this movie these days.
The good news for my fellow geezers is that, after 30 years, my memories of the movie were almost gone. It was like watching a new movie, so there's an upside to those senior moments. I stopped saying, "I don't remember this!" after a while.
There's a lot wrong with this flick, but the core of the plot is not without interest. The main characters test each others love to the max. Timing of their actions also comes into play, and has a great deal to do with the outcome of these lover's fates. I see what the director/writer was trying to do, and if Brando had been controlled a bit more, the film wouldn't have come off as being a bit silly in so many scenes.
I'm giving this movie 4 stars instead of the 2 it deserves because it's fun to watch Brando any place in the world, and Marlon Does Paris is much more fun if he wasn't in this one. I think a lot of his dialogue must have been improvised, and his choice of words gives ... Read More
Rating: - A tragically misunderstood masterpiece...
Let me fist say this; if this film has offended you or left you thinking it nothing more than a pointless perversion then you've clearly missed this entire point and have misunderstood this films purpose.
I felt that was important because I've seen this film get unfairly targeted by some who refuse to truly embrace it for what it is. Yes, there was a lot of controversy that surrounded it upon its release; and that NC-17 rating doesn't help matters, immediately drawing the viewer to the obvious reasons for its harsh rating; but underneath the layers of sensuality lies a very poignant portrayal of a mans guilt and grief and how he chooses to free himself of it. If you strip away the gratuitous love scenes you will begin to see into the deep pools of Marlon Brando's phenomenal performance and begin to understand why this film had to be made the way that it was.
`Ultimo Tango a Parigi' follows Paul, a widower, shortly after his wife's suicide. Still grieving and obviously searching to separate himself from the whole situation, Paul looks into renting himself an apartment. It just so happens that young Jeanne is also there looking herself to rent the apartment. In a spontaneous and completely anonymous moment of passion the two fall into one another and form a curious relationship that serves as a way out for Paul, a way for him to remove himself from all that is crashing in around him.
Paul sets ground rules for the continuance of their relationship; first and ... Read More
Rating:  - Boring, Senseless, Waste of Time
Don't waste your time. If you are watching it to see the controversial steamy sex scenes, you'll be disappointed. There is nothing erotic here. It's a film devoid of emotion or excitement. It's mind-numbing and boring. It may have been praised at the time it was first released, but it has not aged well. Surprising that it was ever determined to be a film with any value even when first released. Pointless film with characters that don't seem to have any direction in their lives and don't seem to care about anything important. The viewer doesn't care either. Glad I saw this free, as I would hate to have paid even $1 to watch it. Your life will be better for NOT having seen this movie.
Rating: - I don't know what it is...
but I love this movie. It's just the right level of sinful arousal and plot that really works. I also find myself really caring about the characters. Usually I'm not a fan of movies that have sex in them at all... it's almost always unnecessary to the plot. But this movie explores desperation in a way that makes lots of sexual content mandatory.
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