
While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.... (Full plot summary below)
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While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.
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| New YorkerPauline KaelWhen Brando improvises within Bertolucci's structure, his full art is realized; his performance is intuitive, rapt, princely. Working with Brando, Bertolucci achieves realism with the terror of actual experience still alive on the screen. |
| What She SaidAnne BrodieWhat makes it work is it is grounded in real life. It's a story and a character study with a strong philosophical framework and people that are recognisably human. Factor in superb filmmaking, saturated sensual natural light and cinematography. |
| The New York Review of BooksNorman MailerRegardless of all its solos, failed majesties, and off-the-mark horrors, even as a highly imperfect adventure, it is still the best adventure in film to be seen in this pullulating year. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is one of the great emotional experiences of our time. |
| Time OutDave CalhounIt's Brando's film: his monologues devastate. |
| VarietyVariety StaffAn uneven, convoluted, certainly dispute-provoking study of sexual passion in which Marlon Brando gives a truly remarkable performance. |
| EspinofAlberto AbuínA film that loses all interest and is even quite unbearable when Brando is not on screen. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseTook the world by storm with its strategy of sexual frankness and a towering performance by Marlon Brando. [Blu-ray] |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullBrando is interesting here, as usual, but much of the film is repetitious, as we explore the unspoken past of Brando and present of Schneider. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyBrando gives a terrific performance, but Bertolucci's movie as a whole, which was so bold and audacious in 1972, does not hold up very well. |