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Last Tango in Paris

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10.0 User Score:

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Based on 6 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Art/Independent  |  Drama  |  Foreign  |  Romance

Written by: Bernardo Bertolucci & Franco Arcalli
Agnès Varda (additional dialogue)
Bernardo Bertolucci (also story)

Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci

Release Date:
Theatrical: January 27, 1973
DVD: November 3, 1998

Running Time: 129 minutes, Color

Origin: Italy / France

Language(s): French (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: NC-17 for some explicit sexual content

Starring Marlon Brando, and Maria Schneider

Jeanne, a young Parisienne, meets Paul, an American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide and have an affair.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is one of the great emotional experiences of our time.

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100

TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)

Shattering social and sexual conventions, Last Tango in Paris stands as one of Bernardo Bertolucci's finer achievements.

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80

The New York Times Vincent Canby

Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is a beautiful, courageous, foolish, romantic, and reckless film.

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70

Chicago Reader Dave Kehr

The surface plausibility is probably the contribution of Marlon Brando, whose performance has strength and detail enough to counterbalance Bertolucci's taste for pure psychological essence.

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60

Empire Emma Cochrane

Interesting for it's historical notoriety, but overlong and dull in places.

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50

Variety Staff (Not Credited)

Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is an uneven, convoluted, certainly dispute-provoking study of sexual passion in which Marlon Brando gives a truly remarkable performance.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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