LAST TANGO IN PARIS (ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI) by BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Last Tango In Paris happens to be one of the most controversial X rated yet another best Italian film which is a must watch. The story tells that a middle-aged mourning widower named Paul (Marlon Brando) met with a would be married young Persian woman named Jeanne (Maria Schneider) in an apartment where they ended up in having a sexual relationship. Even after this Paul and Jeanne decided not to disclose their original identities to each other. The passionate affair continued until one day Jeanne came to know that Paul has left the apartment secretly.

Later on one day incidentally they both met with each other when Paul expressed his desire to further build the relationship to which Jeanne opposed. Finally Jeanne shot Paul with a gun and killed him in his apartment and muttered to herself that Paul that he was just a stranger who wanted to rape her. This gave the film a shocking and dramatic ending.

Marlon Brando was at his best till now in this movie. In spite of being a very erotic film it holds back the audience till the end due to the mesmerizing and unaffected performance of Marlon Brando.

Casts are- Marlon Brando as Paul, Maria Schneider as Jeanne, Maria Mirchi as Rose's Mother, Jean Pierre Leaud as Tom, Massimo Girotti as Marcel, Catherine Allegret as Catherine and others.

10 Reasons you should watch Last Tango In Paris:

1. Mesmerizing performance of Marlon Brando in the role of Paul.
2. The blend of sad yet funny moments at times in the film.
3. The composition of Jazz musician Gato Berbieri where his playing of saxophone would give the film a more rich and sultry feeling.
4. After 10 years of its release the United Artists gave the film a R-Rating instead of the infamous X-Rating.
5. The story of the top Italian film has been created out of the sexual fantasies that Bernardo Bertolucci used to dream of
6. After the release of the film in Europe, the court in Bologna, Italy indicted the director and producer and tagged it as utilitarian pornography! But later on all these tags were removed.
7. In Italy the film did an unprecedented business of $100,000 in only six days in 1972 after its release
8. Last Tango In Paris was spurred by positive reviews in all the major French publications.
9. It can be ranked under one of the top Italian movies ever made.
10. It is undoubtedly one of the top 100 Foreign Films ever made.

I also recommend you to watch these two movies:

1. Petition by Zhao Liang- It is a sad, brave and sobering story on human right violations in China.

2. When we leave by Feo Aladag- It is an intense melodrama whose simplicity raises complex issues and a quest of a Turkish woman for independence.

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Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose well known films include: The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers. In 1962, at the age of 21, he directed his first feature film, La commare secca (1962) The film is a murder mystery. Bertolucci uses flashbacks to piece together the crime and the person who committed it. The film which shortly followed was his acclaimed Before the Revolution.

* La commare secca (1962)
* Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione, 1964)
* La via del petrolio (1965)
* Il Canale (1966)
* Partner (1968)
* Amore e rabbia (1969, episode "Agonia")
* La strategia del ragno (The Spider's Stratagem, 1970)
* Il conformista (The Conformist, 1970)
* La salute è malata (1971)
* Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris, 1972)
* 1900 (Novecento, 1976)
* La Luna (Luna, 1979)
* La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo (1981)
* L'ultimo imperatore (The Last Emperor, 1987)
* The Sheltering Sky (1990)
* Little Buddha (1993)
* Stealing Beauty (Io ballo da sola, 1996)
* Besieged (1998)
* Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
* The Dreamers (2003)

The Bicycle Thief is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. One of the best foreign language films ever filmed, it tells the story of a poor man searching the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle, which he needs to be able to work. It stars Lamberto Maggiorani as the poor man searching for his lost bicycle and Enzo Staiola as his son.

The Decameron is a 1971 film by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini - definitely has its unique place in my top foreign films list. It's the first movie of Pasolini's Trilogy of life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights.

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone. Leone explains that "the killings in my films are exaggerated because I wanted to make a tongue-in-cheek satire on run-of-the-mill westerns... The west was made by violent, uncomplicated men, and it is this strength and simplicity that I try to recapture in my pictures."

Rocco and His Brothers is a 1960 Italian and French film directed by Luchino Visconti. Set in Milan, it tells the story of an immigrant family from the South and its disintegration in the society of the industrial North. A great saga that belongs to my list of best foreign films without reservation.

Umberto D is a 1952 Italian neorealist film, directed by Vittorio de Sica. Most of the actors were non-professional, including Carlo Battisti, who plays the title role. It tells the story of Umberto Domenico Ferrari (Carlo Battisti), an old man in Rome who is desperately trying to keep his apartment on a small state pension.


Seven Beauties is a 1975 Italian language film written and directed by Lina Wertmuller. A masterpiece that certainly belongs to my list of top 100 foreign films without reservation.

Director: Lina Wertmüller, Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey

The night of the shooting stars (French: Le Mepris) The night of the shooting stars is a 1982 film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. It is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.

8 1/2 is a 1963 film directed by Italian director Federico Fellini. Co-scripted by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director. Shot in black-and-white by cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, the film features a soundtrack by Nino Rota with costume and set designs by Piero Gherardi.

Nights of Cabiria (1957) is an Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, plays Cabiria Ceccarelli, a feisty but naive prostitute in Ostia, then a seedy section of Rome. The name Cabiria is borrowed from the 1914 Italian film Cabiria, while the character of Cabiria herself is taken from a brief scene in Fellini's earlier film The White Sheik.

L'avventura is a 1960 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and developed from his initial scenario. Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti star. The film is noted for its careful pacing which puts a focus on visual composition and character development, along with its unusual narrative structure which, taken altogether, "systematically subverted the filmic codes, practices and structures in currency at its time."

Padre Padrone is an Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. The Tavianis used both professional and non-professional actors from the Sardinian countryside. The drama was originally filmed by the Taviani brothers for Italian television but won the 1977 Palme d'Or prize at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.


Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone. The film opens at an isolated train station in Arizona. The station master is changing the expected arrival time of a train to show that it will be late. Three gunmen arrive at the station with an ambience of tension and foreboding...for the rest, just watch it.