cinema – Bernardo Bertolucci’s film will be screened on Sunday at the Cinémathèque in Paris, which provokes the anger of many feminists. Initially inflexible, the institution announced that the session will be preceded by a “time for discussion with the public”
The French Cinematheque at the heart of a controversy. This Sunday evening, the institution will present Last Tango in Paris by Bernardo Bertolucci, as part of a retrospective devoted to Marlon Brando. This 1972 film, which features an affair between a young woman and a forty-year-old man, is known for a particularly shocking rape scene.
A sequence decided at the last minute during filming and all the more violent for Maria Schneider, 19 years old at the time (48 years old for Marlon Brando), who had not been warned by the director. A traumatic shoot from which the actress never recovered.
“It’s difficult today to watch these few minutes of unsimulated abuse without blinking. The crime is on screen: Maria Schneider, humiliated, undergoes, before our eyes and for real, a serious sexual assault,” writes Telerama in a long article reporting the indignation caused by the screening of this film at the Cinémathèque. Journalists and feminist associations criticize the institution for broadcasting the film without educational support or specific mediation.
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