As part of film season dedicated to Marlon Brando - Un Mito Chiamato Brando - Videoteca Pasinetti screens Last Tango in Paris (Italia/
Francia 1972, 132’) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci; starring Marlon
Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi,
Giovanna Galletti, Gitt Magrini.
The film will be shown in the original version with subtitles in Italian.
Distraught following his wife's suicide, American hotelier Paul (Marlon Brando) becomes transfixed by the beautiful younger Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider) when he meets her by chance at an apartment both are attempting to rent. The couple begin an extended but purely anonymous sexual relationship in which they do not even tell each other their names, but it soon becomes clear that the couple's deliberate level of disassociation cannot continue.