Thursday, January 1, 2009

Last Tango In Paris

If you are a film fanatic then you know a Bernardo Bertolucci picture is worth every penny in your bank. When you mix this amazing director with an actor with the magnetism of Marlon Brando you get one of the best films ever made in history.

Last Tango In Paris is the film in which you got to see Brando get rid of some of his cookie cutter clean behavior to really delve into the trauma and reaction that his character goes through. Brando plays the traumatized husband with an eerie calm and enchanting sexuality that you cannot help being glued in front of the screen as the story goes by.

Brando’s performance in this film is so good that you will at times wonder why the actor did not work more and why he did not pick more films like this to work on.

There isn’t much I can say about Bertolucci that hasn’t already been said about him. The Italian director is just awesome. Very few directors can put together a picture as good as Bertolucci and very few of them can get a good performance out of the moody Brando.