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LAST TANGO IN PARIS
November 6, 2016  | By David Bianculli

MGM HD, 10:20 p.m. ET

 

In 1972, Marlon Brando made two movies, both of which achieved an unusual degree of notoriety. One was Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather. The other was Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris, in which he plays an American in Paris, but one who’s a far cry from the type portrayed on screen by Gene Kelly. In Last Tango, he plays a grieving widower, so overcome by the suicide of his wife that he embarks on a carnal, physical, no-names-please affair with a young woman (played by Maria Schneider) he meets by accident while looking to rent an apartment. Well, we all have different ways of coping with grief. This guy used butter, in a scene so infamous at the time, it still ranks as one of the most noteworthy cinematic sex scenes ever filmed – and explains why this movie, though almost 40 years old, is televised so rarely. Yet here it is, unedited.

 
 
 
 
 
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