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...wonders, then, whether in some other life, in some other house by the sea, mom gave Marlon Brando the same advice. Little else could explain his guileful performance in LAST TANGO IN PARIS (Sack Charles), though mother would never use her muffin butter quite the way Brando does here...
Griffith, again, was wrong, as wrong as he was about the Klan's role in his beloved South. Tango intrigues us best by photographing not thought but thoughts. No one comes to understand the strange American widower that Brando plays--why he won't reveal his name, why he shouts to his dead wife, visits her lover--but rather one understands that one simply cannot understand the conflicting thoughts at which Brando hints...
Though Tango ultimately resolves its most superficial drama--who gets an apartment in Paris--the essence of Brando's character, his thoughts, remain as elusive as the credits roll as when he first mumbles, "Je suis Americain...
...navel; he has to dress up in his Vietnam fatigues, too. Our token Italian don in Dragon doesn't just get announced as the Italian, he has to put a voice box to his punctured throat to rasp out his tough words. What's this supposed to mean? Marlon Brando, eat your heart...
Looking ahead to future productions, Golan announced the signing, on a Carlton Hotel napkin, of aging Enfant Terrible Jean-Luc Godard to direct a modern version of King Lear in Hollywood, perhaps with Marlon Brando as Lear and Woody Allen as the fool. (No, Golan admitted, the two stars had not even been approached to appear in the film -- but then again, they hadn't said no.) In any case, Godard by now should be accustomed to negative responses. His new film, a handsome, typically perverse antidrama called Detective, was booed at ; its gala screening, and as he was about...