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Last Tango in Paris

April 2024

  • "The Wild One" Film Still<br>1953: Actor Marlon Brando rides a Triumph motorcycle in a scene from the movie "The Wild One" which came out in 1953. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

    Ranked
    More than a contender: Marlon Brando’s greatest performances – ranked!

    Lovers, fighters … and gangsters? On the centenary of the actor’s birth, we pick out his greatest roles

September 2023

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    ‘Truly unwatchable’: writers on their toughest scenes of movie violence

    For the return of the gory Saw franchise, Guardian writers remember the hardest scenes of big screen violence they’ve had to endure

January 2023

  • LIBRARY IMAGE OF LAST TANGO IN PARIS<br>Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando Film: Last Tango In Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi) Fr/It 1972, Director: Bernardo Bertolucci 14 October 1972 CTH26714 Allstar Picture Library/UNITED ARTISTS **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of UNITED ARTISTS and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To UNITED ARTISTS is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Character(s): Jeanne,Paul

    Last Tango in Paris at 50: Bertolucci’s controversial drama remains troubling

    The Italian director’s knotty drama remains a much-discussed provocation, a film filled with lyrical beauty but also repulsive cruelty

November 2022

  • Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris, 1972.

    From the Guardian archive
    Last Tango in Paris reviewed: ‘the fur is going to fly’ – archive, 1972

    20 November 1972: Marlon Brando gives his best performance for 20 years in Bertolucci’s startling new film

February 2022

  • Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road.

    Lights! Camera! Infraction! Mad Max shows why Hollywood indulges bad behaviour

    Charlize Theron felt so threatened by Mad Max co-star Tom Hardy that she asked for a female producer as protection. Yet the industry still relies on film sets being lawless bubbles where you question macho posturing at your peril

November 2021

  • Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris.

    Last Tango in Paris: story behind Bertolucci’s film to become TV series

    Released in 1972, and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, Last Tango became notorious for its graphic sex scenes and treatment of 19-year-old female lead

January 2021

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    'It was a misuse of power': how screen sex scenes have been forced to change

    As Keira Knightley says she won’t shoot one with a male director, the use of intimacy coordinators means that actors can be more comfortable with what they are asked to do

November 2018

  • Bernardo Bertolucci Italian film director

    Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci: a life in pictures

  • Last Tango In Paris, 1972.<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Granger/REX/Shutterstock (8709922a) Last Tango In Paris, 1972. Marlon Brando, Right, With Bernardo Bertolucci, The Director, Filming On Location In Paris, 1972. Last Tango In Paris, 1972.

    Bernardo Bertolucci: the brilliant last emperor of highbrow cinema

May 2018

  • Pauline Kael, the film critic who wrote for the New Yorker from 1968 to 1991.

    Golden age of female film critics

    Letters: Pauline Kael gushed about Last Tango in Paris, writes Will Goble, while Brian Baxter recalls the many prominent women writing about film
  • Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris.

    Movie critics’ role in promoting violence

    Letter: We need more female critics just as we need more female directors and producers, says Ann Tobin
  • Bernardo Bertolucci<br>FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2016, file photo, director Bernardo Bertolucci poses for photographers during a photo call at the Rome Film festival in Rome. A recently unearthed video interview with Bertolucci from 2013 has renewed interest, and outrage, over what happened to actress Maria Schneider on set during the infamous butter sex scene in “Last Tango in Paris”. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

    Ridley Scott 'should be ashamed' of treatment of Kevin Spacey, says Bertolucci

    The veteran director claims Scott should not have cut Spacey from All the Money in the World – and says he now wants to work with the disgraced actor

March 2017

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    The Handmaiden: the return of erotic cinema

    Eroticism has long been a dirty word in film. But a new thriller about a clandestine affair between two women in 1930s Korea returns the genre to its transgressive roots.

December 2016

  • Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris

    Bertolucci’s justification for the Last Tango rape scene is bogus. It’s called ‘acting’ for a reason

    Jessica Tovey
  • American actor Marlon Brando with actress Marie Schneider and Bernardo Bertolucci in Bertolucci’s film ‘Last Tango In Paris’. 1973

    Last Tango in Paris rape scene claims 'not true at all', says cinematographer

  • Bernardo Bertolucci<br>FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2016, file photo, director Bernardo Bertolucci poses for photographers during a photo call at the Rome Film festival in Rome. A recently unearthed video interview with Bertolucci from 2013 has renewed interest, and outrage, over what happened to actress Maria Schneider on set during the infamous butter sex scene in “Last Tango in Paris”. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

    Bernardo Bertolucci: Last Tango controversy is 'ridiculous'

  • Suzanne Moore

    First thoughts
    Last Tango’s abuse reveals the broken promise of the 1970s sexual revolution

    Suzanne Moore

  • Hollywood's rape culture is a reflection of our culture

    Melissa Silverstein

  • Actors voice disgust over Last Tango in Paris rape scene confession

  • Film blog
    Last Tango scandal shows toxic extent of male power in the film industry

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