VFriday December 20, as part of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of actor Marlon Brando, the Film Forum in New York screened Last Tango in Paris (1972). On its website, the cinema prominently warns the public that the film contained a scene “sexually humiliating” for the actress Maria Schneider, without her being informed. And the site encourages viewers to find out what happened.
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The same film, in the same context, was to be screened at La Cinémathèque française, in Paris, on December 15. But, here, the Internet page of the site dedicated to the film evokes a “object of scandal”. You have to search a little to learn, nestled in a text, that there was, during filming, a “rape scene” including the actress “never recovered”. Outraged by this erasure of context, associations demanded a debate around the projection. Ultimately, the film was canceled by the institution due to “security risks”.
That we have reached this point marks a defeat for art. Of course we have to show this great film. But do you have to be blind not to see that today it is also a “damaged” film, to use a popular expression, in other words which poses a problem, and that we must ask ourselves how ‘frame.
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