Word: tangoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-dressed New York audience leaving the Sunday matinee performance of Last Tango in Paris had emerged trying to hide the impact of the film behind the trivial concerns of an entertainment mentality. Was the film "good?" Did you like Brando's acting? Isn't Bertolucci a marvelous director? Was it, heh-heh, too explicit for you? Then, talk of what to do this evening, where to go next week -- a rapid shift of the attention that left no time for emotions to sink in. Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park, re-running the film in our minds...
None of Bernardo Bertolucci's previous films could so stir the psyche. Those works -- including one or two masterpieces -- were, as everyone said, lush and lyrical. They were emotive but they established an aesthetic distance that made them much less immediate than Last Tango...
...Last Tango in Paris, Bertolucci abandoned adaptation and, on the surface, politics in favor of pure psychological portraiture on a personal, microcosmic level. What threatens the audience's complacency is such intensity on such a personal level. The audience dilutes the passions of the film by thinking of it only in terms of one more weekend's entertaining diversion. People can ignore the film in the same way that people who watch television news can ignore...
...women relies on little white pleated skirts ending just above the knee, and small cloche hats pulled down to the eyebrows For evening, everything is soft and flowing in chiffon and crepe de Chine, bias cut to drape close to the body, just the thing for a moonlight tango with a gentleman in an Indian silk suit. The fabrics are natural-wool, linens, pure cotton-and difficult to care for, with a tendency to develop the rumpled badge of the thoroughly bred. "A poor man can't afford to look wrinkled," observes Lauren. "A rich...
...only for those who enjoy The Last Tango in Paris (as I probably will not), but too bad for people like me who enjoy Peckinpah and believe that A Clockwork Orange was among the very best films directed by an American in the last decade. To those who say that art is sacred and should take priority over social health, I have no reply--except to say that I disagree. But opponents of art censorship must--and I believe will--increasingly recognize that total freedom exacts a heavy price in social health. By the same token, supporters of censorship must...