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Widescreen Editions Last Tango in Paris WS Criterion #122 Uncut LaserDisc Brando Drama

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Last Tango in Paris

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1232L )
(1.85:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Last Tango in Paris
1972 - 129 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Originally 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 fianc

LaserDisc Movie Review:
In Bernardo Bertolucci's sex-saturated, art-house classic, Marlon Brando delivers one of his characteristically idiosyncratic performances as Paul, a middle-aged American in "emotional exile" who comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits suicide. Chancing to meet young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider), Paul enters into a sadomasochistic carnal relationship with her, indirectly attacking the hypocrisy all around him through his raw, outrageous sexual behavior. Paul also hopes to purge himself of his own feelings of guilt, brilliantly (and profanely) articulated in a largely ad-libbed monologue at his wife's coffin. If the sexual content in Last Tango is uncomfortably explicit (once seen, the infamous "butter scene" is never forgotten), the combination of Brando's acting, Bertolucci's direction, Vittorio Storaro's cinematography, and Gato Barbieri's music is unbeatable, creating one of the classic European art movies of the 1970s, albeit one that is not for all viewers. --- Hal Erickson

Ironically, the film that heralded the arrival of a mainstream adult cinema, with its frank and often brutal depiction of impersonal (and often nearly fully clothed) sex, was actually one of the last films to give such raw and uncompromising treatment to the subject matter. Last Tango in Paris certainly ranks among Marlon Brando's greatest acting achievements (he improvised a significant portion of his part), as he makes us care about his distraught, damaged, misogynistic character. Director Bernardo Bertolucci's favorite cameraman, Vittorio Storaro, provides cadaverous color that moves through a half-lit space as evocatively as it travels through the character's emotions. The characters of Paul and Jeanne (Maria Schneider, in an often overlooked but remarkably vulnerable performance) spend the film enveloped in a sexual cocoon, engaging in animalistic acts of passion in order to escape or ignore their lives on the "outside." Such subject matter has rarely (if ever) been treated with such emotional and intellectual seriousness; while one may question the film's conclusions (Paul's declaration of love leads to his death), it is an inescapably bold film, untempered by a fear of public disgust or outrage --- much of which it in fact received at the time, despite (and partly because of) the equally strong favorable views of such critics as Pauline Kael, who called it "a landmark in movie history" comparable to Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in music. --- Dan Jardine

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Cast for Last Tango in Paris

Marlon Brando - Paul
Maria Schneider - Jeanne
Maria Michi - Rose's Mother
Jean-Pierre Leaud - Tom
Massimo Girotti - Marcel
Catherine Allegret - Catherine
Veronica Lazar - Rosa
Peter Schommer - TV Assistant Cameraman
Mauro Marchetti - TV Cameraman
Darling Legitimus - Concierge
Gitt Magrini - Jeanne's mother
Catherine Sola - TV Script Girl
Jean-Luc Bideau - Barge Captain
Jean-Marc Bory
Laura Betti - Miss Blandish
Giovanna Galletti - Prostitute
Dan Diament - TV Sound Engineer
Catherine Breillat - Mouchette
Michel Delahaye - Bible Salesman
Marie-Helene Breillat - Monique

Crew for Last Tango in Paris

Best Actor (nom) Marlon Brando 1973 Academy
Best Director (nom) Bernardo Bertolucci 1973 Academy
Best Actor (win) Marlon Brando 1973 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Film Bernardo Bertolucci 1973 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Actor 1973 SOC

Awards for Last Tango in Paris

Best Original Screenplay (nom) Alun Owen 1964 Academy
Best Score (nom) George Martin 1964 Academy

Feature Details

Title: Last Tango in Paris
Feature Release Date: 1972
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Color
Runtime: 129 Minutes
Chapters: 31
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.85:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 30 Dec 1990
Catalog Number: CC1232L
UPC: 715515001939
ISBN: 1-55940-120-6
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 3
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: French
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1232L
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Marlon Brando in...

Last Tango in Paris

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( Catalog Number CC1232L )
(1.85:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Last Tango in Paris
1972 - 129 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Originally 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 fianc

LaserDisc Movie Review:
In Bernardo Bertolucci's sex-saturated, art-house classic, Marlon Brando delivers one of his characteristically idiosyncratic performances as Paul, a middle-aged American in "emotional exile" who comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits suicide. Chancing to meet young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider), Paul enters into a sadomasochistic carnal relationship with her, indirectly attacking the hypocrisy all around him through his raw, outrageous sexual behavior. Paul also hopes to purge himself of his own feelings of guilt, brilliantly (and profanely) articulated in a largely ad-libbed monologue at his wife's coffin. If the sexual content in Last Tango is uncomfortably explicit (once seen, the infamous "butter scene" is never forgotten), the combination of Brando's acting, Bertolucci's direction, Vittorio Storaro's cinematography, and Gato Barbieri's music is unbeatable, creating one of the classic European art movies of the 1970s, albeit one that is not for all viewers. --- Hal Erickson

Ironically, the film that heralded the arrival of a mainstream adult cinema, with its frank and often brutal depiction of impersonal (and often nearly fully clothed) sex, was actually one of the last films to give such raw and uncompromising treatment to the subject matter. Last Tango in Paris certainly ranks among Marlon Brando's greatest acting achievements (he improvised a significant portion of his part), as he makes us care about his distraught, damaged, misogynistic character. Director Bernardo Bertolucci's favorite cameraman, Vittorio Storaro, provides cadaverous color that moves through a half-lit space as evocatively as it travels through the character's emotions. The characters of Paul and Jeanne (Maria Schneider, in an often overlooked but remarkably vulnerable performance) spend the film enveloped in a sexual cocoon, engaging in animalistic acts of passion in order to escape or ignore their lives on the "outside." Such subject matter has rarely (if ever) been treated with such emotional and intellectual seriousness; while one may question the film's conclusions (Paul's declaration of love leads to his death), it is an inescapably bold film, untempered by a fear of public disgust or outrage --- much of which it in fact received at the time, despite (and partly because of) the equally strong favorable views of such critics as Pauline Kael, who called it "a landmark in movie history" comparable to Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in music. --- Dan Jardine

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Cast for Last Tango in Paris

Marlon Brando - Paul
Maria Schneider - Jeanne
Maria Michi - Rose's Mother
Jean-Pierre Leaud - Tom
Massimo Girotti - Marcel
Catherine Allegret - Catherine
Veronica Lazar - Rosa
Peter Schommer - TV Assistant Cameraman
Mauro Marchetti - TV Cameraman
Darling Legitimus - Concierge
Gitt Magrini - Jeanne's mother
Catherine Sola - TV Script Girl
Jean-Luc Bideau - Barge Captain
Jean-Marc Bory
Laura Betti - Miss Blandish
Giovanna Galletti - Prostitute
Dan Diament - TV Sound Engineer
Catherine Breillat - Mouchette
Michel Delahaye - Bible Salesman
Marie-Helene Breillat - Monique

Crew for Last Tango in Paris

Best Actor (nom) Marlon Brando 1973 Academy
Best Director (nom) Bernardo Bertolucci 1973 Academy
Best Actor (win) Marlon Brando 1973 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Film Bernardo Bertolucci 1973 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Actor 1973 SOC

Awards for Last Tango in Paris

Best Original Screenplay (nom) Alun Owen 1964 Academy
Best Score (nom) George Martin 1964 Academy

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