Last Tango in Paris (DVD)

Description: Theatrical Release: 1973

Newest Review: ... a young woman soon to be engaged to a man busy making a cinema-verite feature about that very engagement. Soon, Jeanne and ... more

... Paul are embroiled in an intense, often savage sexual relationship, neither knowing the other's name or history or situation. Throughout the course of the film, Bertolucci juxtaposes the "reality" of Jeanne and Paul's relationship with the pseudo-reality of the "fiction" being crafted by Jeanne's official partner. Slightly more subtle references are made throughout to the notion that "Love" exists only in the movies, that human beings are in no way capable of the Happy Ever Af...more

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	Last Tango in Paris Release Date: 2004 - 06 - 07, Audio CD, Colosseum Last Update 21.12.2009 05:44	£ 12.69	Free! within 24 hours
	Last Tango in Paris Release Date: 2005 - 07 - 11, Audio CD, Gdm Last Update 21.12.2009 05:44	£ 8.99
	Last Tango in Paris Release Date: 1998 - 06 - 08, Audio CD, Rykodisc Last Update 21.12.2009 05:44	£ 18.30
	Last Tango in Paris Pages: 144, Edition: New impression, Paperback, Macmillan Last Update 21.12.2009 05:44	£ 0.01
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Last Tango in Paris (DVD): Last Tango In Paris (483 words)
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Last Tango In Paris, Bernardo Bertoluccii's infamous, pitch-black anti-romance has lost none of its ability to disturb and repulse in the years since its 1972 release. A bleak, uncompromising, claustrophobic study of "genuine" sexual relationships in opposition to idealised Hollywood representations of such, it is an undeniably powerful film, if one that, perhaps fittingly enough, remains nigh-on impossible to love. When we met Paul (Marlon Brando), he is stood amidst the cacophonous roar of a Paris underpass, screaming blasphemies with hands held to his ears. He is, we soon learn, recently widowed, his wife having committed suicide. Presently, he ... Read the complete review

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