Last Tango in Paris (1972) is a controversial erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. It follows a recently widowed American man, Paul, who encounters a young Parisian woman, Jeanne, and ...

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian filmmaker whose sensual and visually stylistic movies ranged from intense chamber dramas to panoramic historical epics, died Monday at his home in Rome. He was 77.

It’s naïve to think that great movies never ask anything of us, that we can simply allow them to wash over us, gracing us with their artistry. No—we need to meet movies halfway, and our conflicted ...

Being Maria, a new film starring Matt Dillon and Anamaria Vartolomei, explores the life of Maria Schneider and the making of one of the most notorious films in cinema history. It may be the most ...

Written by Bernardo Bertolucci, the story begins when a newly-widowed American ex-pat encounters a young Parisian woman while viewing the same empty Left Bank rental apartment. After the briefest ...

Marco Vito Oddo is a writer, journalist, and amateur game designer. Passionate about superhero comic books, horror films, and indie games, he formally worked as a Senior Writer for Collider. When he's ...

For Bernardo Bertolucci, there was before “Last Tango in Paris” and after “Last Tango in Paris.” Before “Last Tango,” Bertolucci, who died in Rome on Monday at age 77, was an admired director of ...

In 1973, with mixed reviews and pre-Fandango screenings that had to be purchased in advance, it grossed the equivalent of $186 million. The mid-’70s were a high point for sophisticated, ...

Argentineans are as fascinated by Paris as the French are infatuated with tango, a mutual affection that, over the last three years, has even reached the European charts in the form of the Gotan ...

When “Last Tango in Paris” premiered at the New York Film Festival in 1972, “the audience,” wrote New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael, “was in a state of shock” — jolted by an X-rated work of art ...