The golden ticket effect of “Last Tango’s” notoriety enabled the director to find financing for an enormous historical epic on the class struggle in Italy, 1976’s “1900,” which starred Robert DeNiro, Gerard Depardieu and Dominique Sanda with cameos by Sterling Hayden and Burt Lancaster.Īs someone who sat through the five-hour-and-17-minute original version at Cannes, my memory is of seeing more peasants waving more red flags than I’d ever witnessed in my life. (The director counterclaimed the scene was in the script but admitted that the butter element had been improvised and sprung on Schneider at the last minute.)īut even before all of that rancor became public, the “Last Tango” acclaim had changed the direction of Bertolucci’s career. Check out Last Tango in Paris (Uncut Version) Blu-ray reviews, ratings, browse wide selection of blu-ray, DVDs and shop online at Amazon. Not only did the picture’s release not alter the face of anything, it marked a kind of high water mark for bringing a European art house sensibility to studio movies as well as for the ability of a single critic to powerfully affect a film’s national reception.Īnd as far as being a source of endless conversation, “Last Tango” is not often spoken about except in the context of the anger both actors felt at how what appeared on-screen was achieved.įrom the Archives: Bernardo Bertolucci: The emperor’s new clothier »īrando, as revealed in the fine documentary “Listen To Me Marlon,” felt manipulated into revealing parts of his personal life on film and did not speak to Bertolucci for years.Įven worse, Schneider claimed that the infamous butter scene was not in the script, that Brando and Bertolucci manipulated her into doing it and that the whole experience, though simulated, left her as humiliated and traumatized as if she had been raped. Buy Last Tango in Paris (Uncut Version) Blu-ray DVD, Blu-ray online at lowest price in India at Amazon.in. For though “Last Tango” was successful at the box office and earned two Oscar nominations, one for Brando’s performance and one for Bertolucci’s direction, everything about the film went downhill after that initial hubbub.
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