Last Tango in Paris (Uncut Version) [Blu-ray]

This is a great film. I'm not sure it "altered the face of an art form," as Kael said, but that's because only the rarest artists can carry off such an unblinking look inside a soul. Marlon Brando is such an artist, and even he only tried it once.I've been watching a lot of Brando movies since he died, and he is never less than mesmerizing -- even when he is infuriating. (See "The Missouri Breaks," say, or "Mutiny on the Bounty.") His performance in "Last Tango" is the best he ever gave, and one of the finest ever committed to film by any actor.The movie is not all Brando, of course. Bertolucci conceived the whole thing, had a hand in the dialogue, and somehow got his actors to go places they were probably reluctant to go. I mention the dialogue, because it must have imprinted itself in my memory: I had not seen the movie since I went to see it (and immediately see it again) in a threatre when it was released, but I remembered long patches of words, particularly the soliloquies, almost as if I had memorized them. I had forgotten how good Maria Schneider is, and how callow Jean-Pierre Leaud is made to seem. I did not remember the Francis Bacon paintings at the start, with the titles. (I wonder, in fact, if they were not used in the U.S. version that I saw originally.) I remembered the wailing saxophone of Gato Barbieri -- but forgot that the soundtrack is actually by Oliver Nelson. I also forgot that Vittorio Storaro shot the film, for the most part in a cold, washed-out light that is untypical of him.All that said, however, it is primarily Brando, and about the last time we got to see him working with a great director and invested in his own performance. It is instructive to watch "Last Tango" back-to-back with "The Godfather." Both movies were released the same year (1972), and must have been filmed within a short time of each other; but I can imagine someone unfamiliar with Marlon Brando watching the two performances and not realizing the same actor gave them both. In the role of Vito Corleone, he is all craft and externals. As Paul in "Last Tango," he seems emotionally naked, pulling the character from within. It is as brave a performance as you'll ever see.

It's startling just how powerful the eroticism of 'Last Tango in Paris' is still now in 2016. In someways it reveals how our society has grown more puerile and less liberated. In any case, the film might be the most interesting exploration of the moral complexities of sex. From a sex positive perspective, the sex between Paul and Jeanne is beautiful, if still shocking and even violent at times. It is consensual. Paul is using the sex of Jeanne's body for escapism. In her, he loses the pain the crushing loneliness of the world around him. Jeanne sees Paul as a vessel of experience. His primal sexual force becomes a way for her to test the own limits of her own body and her emergent femininity and sexuality. I never saw the sex between them as abusive, because they both clearly are enjoying each other's bodies. The end is tragic because as viewers we know that Jeanne ultimately had to free herself from Paul's sexual grip. His joie de vivre had was running its course, and hers was just becoming known to her. Bertolucci's use of the camera in 'Last Tango in Paris' is nothing less than magnetic, fully implicating the viewer as voyeur. But the voyeurism experienced never feels lurid or malignant. The camera doesn't judge these two people. The moments of heightened sexual violence are undercut by the moments of laughter and tenderness. It is a film that reveals the viewer's own feelings and complications towards their own sexualities. I've watched this film just about as much as I've watched any of my favorite movies (I think this was my 11th time overall), and the film keeps revealing the moral complexities surrounding human sexuality. A once in a lifetime cinematic experience.

Okay, I love Marlon Brando.. Granted because of my age (I was born in 77) most of the stuff I've seen him do was when he was much older. But what was this crap that was made before I was even born? The way this film was reviewed it made it seem as though it was just awesome! U must see it! Marlon is so captivating!!!This is one of those films where you either love it or hate it. Like the opera, you either love it or hate it. Unfortunately I hated this film. From the way they "hooked" up, to the way they told his story... and of course, the ending, what the hell was that?! The movie comes off as too scattered. Like they could not decide which road to take in telling his story to get you to care. So they just threw in a bunch of scenes. I did not feel sorry nor care for any of the main characters. The only reason why I sat and watched the whole movie, was because I bought it.. Highly, Highly disappointing... I can't believe my mother went to the theater to see this film when it came out. But it speaks volumes that my mom (Marlon Brando lover that she is) could not even remember that his wife killed herself and he is this "tortured" guy just trying to deal. All she remembered was that it was a racy film for 1972. But what are reviews anyway? Just someone elses opinion. Not your own. So if you wish to see this film watch it. If you like it, you like it. If you don't, you don't... The world makes sense again.

Marlon Brando shows here a masterful lesson of life. That love can still exist amidst the ashes of disaster…Beautifully shot, the movie is both sensual and mildly erotic with enchanting Paris as a background…It’s a last tango indeed and one we can never forget.

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Obra maestra que me hace ilusión sumar a mi colección. La entrega, perfecta y en plazo.

Porque Brando interpreta el mejor papel de su vida por encima de El Padrino. Sus monólogos han hecho historia y son recordados como una amalgama de guión e improvisación como solo Brando sabía hacer. Bertolucci no quería problemas con el divo y le dejó a su aire, lo que fue un gran acierto para todos los que consideramos a Brando uno de los mejores de todos los tiempos.