| Last Tango in Paris | |
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| 2 Nominations | |
| Year | 1973 |
| Director | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Writer | Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Arcalli |
| Starring | Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud |
| 46th Academy Awqards | |
Last Tango in Paris is a 1973 Italian romantic drama art film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The film's raw portrayal of sexual violence and emotional turmoil led to international controversy and drew various levels of government censorship leading it to get the film an NC-17 rating, making Last Tango in Paris along with Henry & June, the only films with NC-17 ratings to be nominated for any Oscar.
Nominations
- Best Actor — Marlon Brando
- Best Director — Bernardo Bertolucci
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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.
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