Jeanne, who’s twenty, first encounters Paul while apartment-hunting, when she enters a large and dilapidated old unit that’s for rent in the posh Paris neighborhood of Passy and finds him already there, another prospective tenant. Yet “Last Tango” is famous not for its sardonic, satirical plotline about the making of an exaggerated docu-fiction, but for what Jeanne does when she becomes involved in a sexual liaison with a forty-five-year-old man named Paul, played by Marlon Brando. The director, who died this week, at the age of seventy-seven, was previously acclaimed as a virtuoso then, with the release of “Last Tango,” he was hailed as an innovator, a revolutionary artist-in a famous review in The New Yorker, Pauline Kael compared the film’s importance to that of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” which sparked a riot at its première, in 1913. The woman in that scene is Jeanne, played by Maria Schneider, and the film in which it appears is “Last Tango in Paris,” the 1972 movie, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, that propelled him, at the age of thirty-one, into the history of cinema. While she yells at him, he holds his fingers up in a rectangle in front of his eyes and imagines that he’s filming her as a train roars into the station, she cries out, “I’m tired of being raped!” Now, in the Métro, she tells him that he’s wasting her time, she tells him that he’s taking advantage of her, she tells him that he’s forcing her to do things that he wants her to do. The director has filmed his real-life romantic reunion with the actress at a train station he and his crew have joined her at her family home in the French countryside, where he works out an elaborate plan for getting her to reminisce on-camera, to recall and seemingly relive her childhood onscreen.
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The movie is an unusual one they are acting in it, under their own names, and they are being followed and filmed as they go about their daily lives. An actress berates a director across the tracks at a quiet Paris Métro station, telling him that she’s going to quit the film that they’re working on.
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