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...After seeing the attacks on your cover story about Last Tango [Feb. 12], I can only hope that it is not indicative of the overall national reaction to the article. The article was well written, informative and showed both insight and discretion...
...totally unnecessary, as well as repulsive, to print so many pictures from the movie Last Tango [Jan. 22]. Your written description of the movie was more than adequate to inform the public about this film. It is too bad that no one labeled the issue with...
...plot is mainly an excuse for a series of monologues. Two people who want to be tenants of the same barren apartment meet in it. They gradually spill out their past lives, the failures of their marriages, and their desires for companionship. If Last Tango in Paris without sex is imaginable, this is it. But a third woman is always present and the two potential roommates are in their late fifties, maybe eighties. Both are women and there's no sex in the whole thing except for the various tales of use and misuse at husbands' hands...
...LAST TANGO in Paris won't be shown in Boston until April, and perhaps that's just as well for the sake of earlier films by Bernardo Bertolucci which will be around before then. The Conformist, which had its fair share of attention when it came out in 1971, will soon be showing at two local theaters. And now Before the Revolution, the film which won Bertolucci international renown at 23, returns to the Square together with The Spider's Strategem, a film made in 1969 for Italian television but released in the United States only this year...
Thanks to your well-written article, my mind is at least a bit more open to Tango and all its elements. Bertolucci will have my price of admission...