Last Tango in Paris (1972) is a controversial erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. It follows a recently widowed American man, Paul, who encounters a young Parisian woman, Jeanne, and ...

Now, it’s time for late actress Maria Schneider’s story to be fully shared onscreen. Schneider, who famously starred in controversial “Last Tango in Paris” at age 19 alongside Marlon Brando, is ...

The prestigious Cinémathèque Française in Paris says it has cancelled a screening of Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial classic Last Tango in Paris, citing "potential security risks" ...

Few actors have a career as celebrated as that of Marlon Brando. The actor's natural talent made him a breakout star a few years after he started acting, with A Streetcar Named Desire propelling him ...

It’s naïve to think that great movies never ask anything of us, that we can simply allow them to wash over us, gracing us with their artistry. No—we need to meet movies halfway, and our conflicted ...

It may not contain a lot of actual South American dancing, but Last Tango in Paris has plenty of the metaphorical, horizontal kind of tangoing. (We are referring to sex.) But plenty of movies have ...

“Being Maria” uses the actress’s own words to show how the star’s frank discussion of the experience was an early salvo in the #MeToo movement. By Elisabeth Vincentelli In a 1983 interview for a ...

Anamaria Vartolomei ('Happening') plays the troubled French actress — alongside Matt Dillon as Marlon Brando — in Jessica Palud's film. By Jordan Mintzer When New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wrote ...

At 19, French actor Maria Schneider was launched into the spotlight for her role in the erotic drama “Last Tango in Paris.” The notorious film made her famous, but haunted the rest of her life. But ...

PARIS • Maria Schneider, the French actress who appeared opposite Marlon Brando in "Last Tango in Paris," the 1972 movie whose strong sexual content stirred international controversy, has died. She ...