Word: tangoing
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...issue of Premiere magazine, “that there is going to be an NC-17 movie focusing on sexy teenagers in 1968 Paris who are obsessed with movies, sex and politics, in that order. And it’s from the director of Last Tango In Paris? Premiere, if you weren’t inanimate, you could be my valentine...
...what about the more obvious pleasure, the copious nudity? This is the director of Last Tango, one of the most erotic pictures of the last 40 years. Sadly, this constitutes a different kind of nudity. Rather than being a result of strong sexuality and eroticism, Bertolucci pares the nudity down to its base elements. While all three are bathing naked in the bath, Isabelle has her period. Although her menstrual blood is presumably meant to symbolize the danger in their relationship at that point, the net effect is turning off the audience. It only adds to the uneasiness we already...
...When we call my once and future roommate, who has adopted this course, the very key and tempo of Argentine telephone rings seems exotic. A continent away, my roommate tells us about the junior year she is spending far from the Yard—plentiful steak! Cheap cigarettes! The tango! It’s summer now in Argentina, and she tells us she misses the snow. We don’t believe her for a minute...
...September of her freshman year. Although her absence has changed our Harvard, it hasn’t changed Harvard. And ultimately, this may be the change wrought by study abroad: a transformed definition of the Harvard experience instead of a transformed Harvard. For future generations of college students, tango lessons may seem as quintessentially collegiate as Tercentenary Theatre...
...aside the spacious visual elegance of The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, The Conformist. This is a deliberately cramped and ugly film. The only Bertolucci film it somewhat resembles is Last Tango in Paris--you know, people shutting themselves away from the world to indulge their sexual fantasies. But that film, which was rated X, had an authentic sexual charge. This one--which carries an NC-17, the modern equivalent of an X--is grim and joyless, though it is far richer and more casual in its display of both male and female frontalia...