Last Tango In Paris (1972) Full Movie In Hindi

Yet Schneider went on to make some 50 movies and became an advocate for women’s and actors’ rights, walking off the set of “Caligula” in 1974 reportedly declaring, “I am an actress, not a prostitute”. The actress, who later attempted suicide, was traumatised by the film, according to her cousin Vanessa Schneider, who has just published an account of her life, cut short by cancer at age 58. After the scene, Marlon didn’t console me or apologise. “I felt humiliated and to be honest I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. Marlon said to me: ‘Maria, don’t worry, it’s just a movie.’ But during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn’t real, I was crying real tears. “I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set because you can’t force someone to do something that isn’t in the script,” she said later. While the sex was simulated, it later emerged that Schneider had been kept in the dark about what was to happen by Brando and Bertolucci, who were both later nominated for Oscars. Many feminists, however, denounced it as a demeaning “tool of male dominance”.

Its visceral sexual violence saw the film banned in several countries and sparked a screen myth that the scene was real.īut that did not stop the movie being hailed by critics as one of the best films of the 1970s, with the legendary New Yorker critic Pauline Kael saying it had “altered the face of an art form”, comparing it to Stravinsky’s masterpiece, The Rite of Spring. In it, the young French actress Maria Schneider, who was 19 at the time, is depicted as being anally raped by the middle-aged Marlon Brando on a Paris apartment floor with the aid of a lump of butter. It was a scene that scarred the life of a young actress and left a stain on the career of Bernardo Bertolucci, one of cinema’s most talented directors, who died Monday of cancer aged 77.īefore #MeToo and the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the notorious “butter scene” in Bertolucci’s 1972 film Last Tango In Paris had been seen as the nadir of the film industry’s treatment of women.

Last Tango In Paris (1972) Full Movie In Hindi