Bernardo Bertolucci is an interesting auteur who has done some fine movies and then... some not so great. But. He is a true Moviemaker!
'Last Tango in Paris'/'Ultimo tango a Parigi'. This film was huge succes in its time and it brought wonderful Marlon Brando once again in public. (At the same time with Coppola's 'Godfather' (1972).) And Brando is of course magnificent. The story goes that Brando refused to memorize his lines and instead of that made his own and hanged them in cards around the set.
For co-players playing with Brando is not a nice thing. Brando takes his room. No one remember Jean-Pierre Léaud, Truffaut's alter ego, from this movie. And then there was Maria Schneider. Everybody wrote about the plot and directing, filming, music or Brando for good reasons but not a word about Maria Schneider. And that was so wrong... I felt in love with Maria in those days and I thought that she was great in this movie. And so she was!
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