Word: tangoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even in the conservative San Fernando Valley, an area that Yorty had carried heavily in 1969, voters were repelled by the racial appeal. It was, said a commentator, "Yorty's last tango...
Columnist Art Buchwald has a fascinating new theory about Last Tango in Paris: "It is really a simple, heartwarming film about two people trying to rent the same apartment in Paris...
...figures if he rapes the girl, she'll go away." Anyone who has searched for a flat in Paris would understand, Buchwald wrote. "I don't know if Last Tango in Paris is a great movie or not," Buchwald sums up his critique, "but I believe that Director Bertolucci has made an important social statement about one of the real outrages of our time, which happens to be the housing shortage in France...
Rivette cannot rival the lush symmetry of Bertolucci's camerawork but his structure and psychological treatment make Tango, with its inconsistent plot and shallow characterization, seem even flatter by contrast. Rivette's psychology has its limits as well -- tendencies toward surrealism narrow its view, violence becomes stylized and unbelievable towards its end -- but the basic insights are sound. Sex is merely sketched in Rivette's work, but his actors have a greater sensitivity which produces a far more sensual result than Brando's mechanical and purposeless simulations...
...improvised segments can come up with is Brando's famous "everything outside is bullshit" line while Rivette's effort enriches the film with a ring of additional depth. The film-within-the-film approach in L'Amour Fou lacks the gimmickry and inside-joking of the similar segments of Tango: in Rivette's film the function is real, and Sebastien is even helped in his direction by seeing rushes of the television film...