Product Information
Marlon Brando plays Paul, an American expatriate whose wife has recently committed suicide. Maria Schneider is Jeanne, a young Frenchwoman engaged to be married to an earnest young filmmaker. When they meet by chance in an empty Paris apartment, Paul and Jeanne embark on an intense sexual relationship that obliterates the outside world each is hiding from. Bertolucci and Brando created controversy with their poignant vision of desire inflamed by grief.Product Identifiers
ProducerAlberto Grimaldi
EAN5050070001822
eBay Product ID (ePID)3940090
Product Key Features
ActorRachel Kesterber, Mauro Marchetti, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Maria Michi, Armand Ablanalp, Catherine Sola, Mimi Pinson, Gitt Magrini, Marlon Brando, Ramon Mendizabal, Dan Diament, Peter Schommer, Massimo Girotti, Luce Marquand, Catherine Breillat, Maria Schneider, Giovanna Galletti, Veronica Lazar, Marie-Helene Breillat, Catherine Allegret, Darling Legitimus
Film/TV TitleLast Tango in Paris
DirectorBernardo Bertolucci
LanguageEnglish
Run Time124 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen\16:9 Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2000
Features8 Page Film Booklet\Uncut Version\Original Theatrical Trailer\Interactive Menu Screens\Chapter Search, Widescreen, Closed Caption
GenreDrama, Adult
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureItaly
Hearing ImpairedEnglish\German
ComposerGato Barbieri
ReviewsRolling Stone - Brando gives one of his most ferocious and feeling performances, Premiere - Brando is astonishing, Entertainment Weekly - Brando communicates a great sense of erotic abandon
Additional InformationOriginally famed for its sexual frankness, Bernardo Bertolucci's LAST TANGO IN PARIS has managed to endure due to its sophisticated storytelling and brave lead performances. Marlon Brando incorporated details from his own life into the character of Paul, the globetrotting American who finally settled into a marriage and proprietorship of a fleabag hotel in Paris. But when his wife commits suicide, Paul goes into an existential tailspin. One day, while wandering through an apartment that is available for rent, he encounters Jeanne (Maria Schneider), a lovely Parisian girl (she's 20 to Paul's 45) who is also viewing the apartment. The two become intimate and have a heated affair, carried on without names, in the apartment where they first met. While Paul clearly hopes to forget about his wife, Jeanne is simply overwhelmed by her fiance (Jean-Pierre Leaud, in a somewhat Bertolucci-satirising role), a filmmaker who wants her to be his subject and inspiration. Nothing is taboo in their relationship, but confrontation comes when Paul breaks the spell of impersonality. Brando's monologue beside his dead wife has sent many a film student into a paroxysm of pleasure in this groundbreaking erotic drama from acclaimed director Bertolucci (THE CONFORMIST, THE LAST EMPEROR).
ScreenwriterBernardo Bertolucci, Franco Arcalli
Dubbing LanguagesGerman\French\Spanish\Italian
Sound sourceMono
Movie/TV TitleLast Tango In Paris
EditorFranco Arcalli
Director of PhotographyVittorio Storaro
VoiceJean-Marc Bory