Last Tango in Paris

Last Tango in Paris

1972 · 2 hr 9 min · NC-17

Drama, Romance

Directors

Bernardo Bertolucci

Actors

  • Marlon Brando
  • Maria Schneider
  • Maria Michi

Credits: 1

Summary

A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.

More about this movie

While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.