Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Year: 1972
Location: France, Italy
One winter morning a man and a young girl are casually while visiting a rented apartment in Paris. Since then she is attracted to him, though more young sounds interesting, attractive, different. He sees in her a delicate, fresh and sensual woman. Start living a romance without limits, where there are no names, only two people drifting towards their instincts.
The American Paul (Marlon Brando), destroyed by a meaningless life, and the young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider), conventional and superficial, communicating only through their sexuality, making your meeting a kind of utopia impossible isolates them from others.
At first Paul appears as breaking all conventions. His meeting with Jeanne is an experiment: he wants absolute relationship, where there are no names that set a social and psychological context.
The good
This film reawakened the interest of the cinema to the erotic genre. It was slightly used by managers due to its strong sexual content topic.
The film caused much controversy because it was unn years where the issue of sexuality was still taboo for people and for the big screen.
Marlon Brando was nominated for Best Actor Oscar that year and it was filmed in The Godfather.
bad
The actress even years later made ​​statements about his character and said that in that scene was really rough and the actor physically and psychologically hurt.
After this movie Maria Schneider did another major film, and also left him serious psychological damage that could not overcome.
Tags: erotic, Movie, Paris, TANGO, week