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...moviegoers who are not shocked, titillated, disgusted, fascinated, delighted or angered by this early scene in Bernardo Bertolucci's new movie, Last Tango in Paris, should be patient. There is more to come. Much more. Bertolucci, whose political melodrama The Conformist was one of the most highly praised foreign films of 1971, has marshaled his opulent visual style to tell a stark story of sex as a be-all and end-all. For boldness and brutality, the intimate scenes are unprecedented in feature films. Frontal nudity, four-letter words, masturbation, even sodomy-Bertolucci dwells uncompromisingly on them all with...
...Paris, people are standing in line for up to two hours at the seven theaters where Tango has been playing for a month. In Italy, the film ran into an initial snag with the board of censors, eventually was released for nearly a week last month, then was confiscated pending settlement of a citizens' suit complaining of "the obscenity of some sequences, particularly the scenes of carnal violence that last for several minutes and go beyond artistic necessity...
...States-on the final night of the New York Film Festival in October. "That date," wrote Critic Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, "should become a landmark in movie history comparable to May 29, 1913-the night Le Sacre du Printemps was first performed-in music history. [Tango has] altered the face of an art form. This is a movie people will be arguing about for as long as there are movies." United Artists recently reprinted the whole of Kael's extraordinary rave as a double-page ad in the Sunday New York Times-the first salvo in what...
...Tango's explosive impact will demonstrate to a wide public what many film buffs already know: that Bertolucci, 31, is Italy's most gifted director in the generation after Fellini and Antonioni, and one of the most gifted younger directors on the world scene (see box, page 54). It will also introduce, in the role of the young girl, a striking new performer: France's sensual, baby-faced Maria Schneider, 20, whose blithely amoral charm perfectly expresses the contem porary...
...seemed, through the 1960s, to be erratically and sometimes disastrously in decline: Marlon Brando. Brando is already being touted as an Academy Award contender for his role in last year's The Godfather. Now his emotionally wrenching, coruscating performance as the protagonist of Tango fulfills all the promise he gave in the earlier film of regaining his old dominance, not only as an actor but also as a star and a legend...