13 September 2008

Nothing matters when we're dancing

Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last tango in Paris)

(1972)

I remember now, the last time I watched this, several years ago, being surprised by how funny this film is--by how amazingly Brando in particular couples (you should pardon the expression) comedy with despair. It's almost as if his character were a Mets fan.

A young Catherine Breillat appears, along with her sister Marie-Hélène, as pop wedding-dress fitters (in a hilarious non-Brando scene between Maria Schneider and Jean-Pierre Léaud, the latter taking a break from his career as alter ego for Truffaut and Godard to play a callow guerrilla filmmaker work for Bertolucci).

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