![]() Paul is adamant and refuses to talk about anything for he only wants to have sex with her and nothing else. But Jeanne (who has some knowledge of English after overhearing Paul talking to himself about his miserable life) keeps trying to find out who the strange American man is. They are to meet there twice a week only for sex and tell no one about each other. Paul lays out ground rules that they are never to reveal their names to each other and never to discuss the outside world or to talk about their pasts. The next day, Paul and Jeanne rendezvous back at the vacant apartment. Paul doesn't say much and goes to his room to be by himself. The maid speaks to Paul about the fact his French wife, Rose, two days earlier committed suicide in the bathtub by slashing her wrists. Meanwhile, the middle-aged American man, who is named Paul, returns to a flophouse hotel in a run-down part of the city where he ventures to his apartment and watches a maid wash blood off the bathtub and surrounding walls. Despite their genuine loving engagement to be married, Jeanne is unhappy and annoyed that Tom insists on doing a cinéma vérité documentary all about her life and of her father, who is a well-known war hero. They walk back to Jeanne's apartment where she currently lives with her mother having taken care of her since her father, a soldier in the French Foreign Legion, was killed in action in 1958 in Algeria. Jeanne goes to the Paris Metro train station to meet her fiancée Tom (Jean-Pierre Leaud), a young television documentarian who has just returned to Paris following an assignment. When it is over, they each go their separate ways. ![]() They are very passionate yet never introduce themselves. After a few minutes of silence and some quiet dialogue, he picks her up, backs her against a wall, rips off her panties and has sex with her in the deserted apartment. Jeanne quickly identifies him as an American because of his thick accent while they are communicating in French. There, she runs into a middle-aged, obviously depressed man (Marlon Brando) who is also looking at it. She goes alone to look at an apartment in a region of the Left Bank. ![]() Now a recently uploaded YouTube video has shed new light on that particular scene-and spurred horrified reactions across Hollywood.Jeanne (Maria Schneider) is a 20-year-old Parisian woman wondering the streets looking for an apartment to live for herself and her fiancée. In 1972, Last Tango in Paris-starring a 48-year-old Marlon Brando and 19-year-old newcomer Maria Schneider as a pair of lovers-caused a stir for its depictions of sex, particularly a scene in which Schneider's character is anally raped by Brando's character, who uses butter as a lubricant. The only novelty was the idea of the butter.” That is false! Maria knew everything because she had read the script, where it was all described. Somebody thought, and thinks, that Maria had not been informed about the violence on her. ![]() We wanted her spontaneous reaction to that improper use. Several years ago at the Cinemathèque Francaise someone asked me for details on the famous ‘butter scene.’ I specified, but perhaps I was not clear, that I decided with Marlon Brando not to inform Maria that we would have used butter. Update (December 5, 12:35 p.m.): Bernardo Bertolucci has released a statement regarding the reinvigorated controversy surrounding his film Last Tango in Paris, according to Variety: “I would like, for the last time, to clear up a ridiculous misunderstanding that continues to generate press reports about Last Tango in Paris around the world.
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