Editing Last Tango in Paris (section)

== Reception ==
The film premiered as the closing film at the [[New York Film Festival]] on 14 October 1972, with high demand and enormous public controversy. The film did not have any press screenings due to concerns that the film was being shown against Italian law after the Italian censors had not passed the film. The lack of screenings increased demand for the film with some offering $100 to buy a ticket.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=October 11, 1972|page=7|title=N.Y. Fest Theme 'No. 2 For 'Tango'}}</ref>

The film opened in late 1972 in France, where filmgoers stood in two-hour queues for the first month of its run at the seven cinemas where it was screened.<ref name="SelfPortrait"/> It gained unanimous positive reviews in every major French publication.<ref>{{cite news |title='Last Tango' Wins Raves in France |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]  |date=16 December 1972 |page=24}}</ref> To circumvent Spanish state censorship, thousands of Spaniards travelled hundreds of kilometers to reach French cinemas in [[Biarritz]] and [[Perpignan]] where ''Tango'' was playing.<ref>{{cite news |first=Henry |last=Giniger |title=Spaniards Seeing 'Tango' in France |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=16 April 1973 |page=49}}</ref> Following that, it was released in the United States, Great Britain, and other venues.

The film generated considerable controversy because of its subject and graphic portrayal of sex. Schneider provided frank interviews in the wake of ''Tango''{{'}}s controversy, claiming she had slept with 50 men and 20 women, that she was "[[bisexual]] completely", and that she had used [[heroin]], [[cocaine]], and [[marijuana]]. She also said of Bertolucci, "He's quite clever and more free and very young. Everybody was digging what he was doing, and we were all very close."<ref>{{cite news |first=Judy |last=Klemesrud |author1-link=Judy Lee Klemesrud|title=Maria Says Her 'Tango' Is Not|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 4, 1973|accessdate=April 20, 2024|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/04/archives/maria-says-her-tango-is-not-movies.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628231233/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/04/archives/maria-says-her-tango-is-not-movies.html|archive-date=June 28, 2023}}</ref>

During the publicity for the film's release, Bertolucci said Schneider developed an "[[Oedipus complex|Oedipal [sic] fixation]] with Brando".<ref name="The Hottest Movie"/> Schneider said Brando sent her flowers after they first met, and "from then on he was like a daddy".<ref name="SelfPortrait"/> In a later interview, Schneider denied this, saying, "Brando tried to be very paternalistic with me, but it really wasn't any father-daughter relationship."<ref name="The Hottest Movie"/> However, in 2007, she said that "for me, he was more like a father figure and I a daughter."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Vincent|first=Alice|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/12/05/butter-brando-bertolucci-schneider-really-happened-last-tango/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/12/05/butter-brando-bertolucci-schneider-really-happened-last-tango/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Butter, Brando, Bertolucci and Schneider: what really happened during Last Tango in Paris's controversial sex scene|date=2016-12-05|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2020-04-01|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In Italy, the film was released on 15 December 1972, grossing an unprecedented $100,000 in six days.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gussow |first=Mel |title=Bertolucci Talks about Sex, Revolution, and 'Last Tango' |work=The New York Times |date=2 February 1973 |page=20}}</ref> One week later, however, police seized all copies on the order of a prosecutor, who defined the film as "self-serving pornography", and its director was put on trial for "obscenity". Following first degree and appeal trials, the fate of the film was sealed on 26 January 1976 by the [[Supreme Court of Cassation (Italy)|Italian Supreme Court]], which sentenced all copies to be [[Lost film|destroyed]] (though some were preserved by the National Film Library). Bertolucci was served with a four-month suspended sentence in prison and had his civil rights revoked for five years, depriving him of voting rights.<ref name="Stealing Beauty">{{cite news |first=Xan |last=Brooks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/feb/05/features.xanbrooks |title=Stealing Beauty |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London, England |date=5 February 2004 |access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref> It grossed 7 billion lire ($3.9 million) in its initial release in Italy. It was re-released in 1987 where it grossed an additional 5 billion lire ($2.7 million). In 2000, it was listed as the [[List of highest-grossing films in Italy|second-highest grossing Italian film in Italy]] adjusted for inflation.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=10 January 2000|page=36|title=Italo B.O. list beautiful for top-ranked Bengini|last=Rooney|first=David}}</ref>

=== Response in United States ===
{{quote box|bgcolor=#CCDDFF|align=right|width=25%|quote=October 14, 1972... should become a landmark in movie history comparable to May 29, 1913—the night ''[[The Rite of Spring|Le Sacre du Printemps]]'' was first performed—in music history...  ''Last Tango in Paris'' has the same kind of hypnotic excitement as the ''Sacre'', the same primitive force, and the same thrusting, jabbing eroticism.  The movie breakthrough has finally come.|source=—[[Pauline Kael]]{{sfn|Arcalli|Bertolucci|1972|p=9}} }}

The film opened February 1, 1973 at the Trans-Lux East in New York City with a $5 ticket price and advance sales of $100,000,<ref name=usopen>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=February 7, 1973|page=7|title=Bertolucci Rues $5 Bit on 'Tango'|last=Segers|first=Frank}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=February 7, 1973|page=6|title=KO 'Tango' Case In Italy; Leads Director Safe}}</ref> grossing $41,280 in its first week.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=February 7, 1973|page=8|title='Tango' At $5, Takes $41,280, First}}</ref> The media frenzy surrounding the film generated intense popular interest as well as moral condemnation, and the film was featured in cover stories in both ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and ''[[Newsweek]]''<ref name="The Hottest Movie"/> magazines. ''[[Playboy]]'' published a photo spread of Brando and Schneider "cavorting in the nude".<ref name="The Hottest Movie"/> ''Time'' wrote,

{{blockquote|Any moviegoers who are not shocked, titillated, disgusted, fascinated, delighted or angered by this early scene in Bernardo Bertolucci's new movie, ''Last Tango in Paris'', should be patient. There is more to come. Much more.<ref name="SelfPortrait" />}}

The ''[[Village Voice]]'' reported walkouts by board members and "vomiting by well-dressed wives".<ref>{{cite web |first=Geoffrey |last=Macnab |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/last-tango-in-paris-can-it-arouse-the-same-passions-now-454083.html |title=Last Tango in Paris: Can it arouse the same passions now? |work=[[The Independent]]  |location=London, England |date=22 June 2007 |access-date=22 March 2018|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311220122/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/last-tango-in-paris-can-it-arouse-the-same-passions-now-454083.html |archive-date=11 March 2010}}</ref> Columnist [[William F. Buckley]] and ABC's [[Harry Reasoner]] denounced the film as "pornography disguised as art".<ref name="The Hottest Movie"/>

After local government officials failed to ban the film in [[Montclair, New Jersey]], theatergoers had to push through a mob of 200 outraged residents, who hurled epithets like "perverts" and "homos" at the attendees. Later, a [[bomb threat]] temporarily halted the showing.<ref>{{cite news |first=Walter H. |last=Waggoner |title=Pickets Call 'Tango' Filthy as it Starts its Montclair Run |work=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York City |date=26 April 1973 |page=91}}</ref> The New York City chapter of the [[National Organization for Women]] denounced the film as a tool of "male domination".<ref>{{cite news |first=Laurie |last=Johnston |title='Women's Power' Protests 'Male Domination' of Wall St. |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]  |date=24 August 1973 |page=39}}</ref>

The film's scandal centred mostly on an anal rape scene, featuring Paul's use of butter as a [[Sexual lubricant|lubricant]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Tamara |last=Jenkins |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/28388/Last-Tango-in-Paris/overview |title=Movies: About Last Tango in Paris |location=New York City | access-date=7 May 2010  |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031085713/https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/28388/Last-Tango-in-Paris/overview |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2012 |archive-date=31 October 2012}}</ref> According to Schneider, the scene was not in the original script, but was Brando's idea.<ref name="Downhill Ride"/> Other critics focused on when the character Paul asks Jeanne to insert her fingers in his anus, then asks her to prove her devotion to him by, among other things, having sex with a pig. [[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' described the film's sexual content as the artistic expression of the "era of [[Norman Mailer]] and [[Germaine Greer]]"<ref>{{cite news |first=Vincent |last=Canby |author-link=Vincent Canby |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/02/archives/screen-last-tango-in-paris-at-last-the-cast.html |title=Last Tango in Paris |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]  |date=2 February 1973 |access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref> and was upset about the high ticket price.<ref name=usopen/>

Film critic [[Pauline Kael]] endorsed the film,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/834-last-tango-in-paris|title=Last Tango in Paris|first=Pauline|last=Kael|authorlink=Pauline Kael|website=The Criterion Collection}}</ref> writing that "''Tango'' has altered the face of an art form. This is a movie people will be arguing about for as long as there are movies."<ref name="SelfPortrait"/> She called it "the most powerfully erotic movie ever made, and it may turn out to be the most liberating movie ever made."{{sfn|Arcalli|Bertolucci|1972|p=10}} [[United Artists]] reprinted the whole of Kael's rave as a double-page advertisement in the Sunday ''New York Times''. Kael's review of ''Last Tango in Paris'' is regarded as the most influential piece of her career.<ref>{{cite news |first=Louis |last=Menand |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/03/23/finding-it-at-the-movies/ |title=Finding It at the Movies |newspaper=[[The New York Review of Books]] |date=23 March 1995 |access-date=22 March 2018}}</ref>

Many feminist film critics disliked the film. In a 1974 review in ''[[Jump Cut (journal)|Jump Cut]]'', [[E. Ann Kaplan]] criticized it for featuring "a one-sided relationship seen mostly through Paul's eyes."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kaplan |first1=E. Ann |title=Importance and Ultimate Failure of Last Tango in Paris |journal=[[Jump Cut (journal)|Jump Cut]] |date=1974 |volume=4 }}</ref> In ''[[Women and Their Sexuality in the New Film]],'' (1974) one of the first explicitly feminist books on film, [[Joan Mellen]] complains about a similar issue, that Jeanne constantly gives way to Paul, "the man who is made more interesting in every way."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mellen |first1=Joan |title=Women and Their Sexuality in the New Film |date=1974 |publisher=Horizon Press |location=New York City|isbn=978-0818007057 |page=49 |edition=1 }}</ref> However, a few did enjoy it, such as [[Molly Haskell]], who responded to feminist criticism in ''[[From Reverence to Rape|From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies]]'' (1974) by noting that women more than men seemed to respond to the film, and that female sexual fantasies can include "rape, sadism, submission, liberation, and anonymous sex."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haskell |first1=Molly |title=From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies |date=1974 |publisher=New English Library |isbn=0-226-31885-0 |page=32}}</ref>

The American critic [[Roger Ebert]] repeatedly described Kael's review as "the most famous movie review ever published", and he added the film to his "Great Movies" collection.<ref>{{cite news |first=Roger |last=Ebert |author-link=Roger Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-last-tango-in-paris-1972 |title=Intimate strangers in the night |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]  |location=Chicago, Illinois |date=15 August 2004 |access-date=22 March 2018 |via=rogerebert.com}}</ref> American director [[Robert Altman]] expressed unqualified praise: "I walked out of the screening and said to myself, 'How dare I make another film?' My personal and artistic life will never be the same."<ref name="The Hottest Movie" />

Review aggregation website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] retrospectively collected 44 reviews and gave the film an approval rating of 82%, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Naturalistic but evocative, ''Last Tango in Paris'' is a vivid exploration of pain, love, and sex featuring a typically towering Marlon Brando performance."<ref>{{cite web |title=Last Tango in Paris (1972) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_tango_in_paris/ |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media]] |access-date= 18 April 2024}}</ref> {{Metacritic film prose|77|6|access-date=21 December 2024}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Last Tango in Paris critic reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/last-tango-in-paris/critic-reviews/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=www.metacritic.com |language=en}}</ref>

In 2004, director [[Martin Scorsese]] compared this "towering Brando performance" to the actor's turn as Terry Malloy in ''[[On the Waterfront]]'' (1954) and noted that "[w]hen you watch his work in ... ''Last Tango in Paris'', you're watching the purest poetry imaginable, in dynamic motion".<ref>{{cite web|agency=[[Associated Press]] |title=Marlon Brando redefined acting |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/marlon-brando-redefined-acting-wbna5354214 |access-date=July 20, 2020 |work=Official website of The Today Show |date=July 3, 2004}}</ref>

[[Ethan Hawke]] considered Brando's work a seminal moment in the movement of performance. Praising both the star and the director of the film, Hawke told [[Richard Linklater]] and [[Louis Black]] that, "Brando upped [''On the Waterfront''] with ''Last Tango''."<ref>{{cite web|first=Louis |last=Black |author-link=Louis Black |title=Page Two: 'I Got Vision, and the Rest of the World Wears Bifocals' |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2016-03-04/page-two-i-got-vision-and-the-rest-of-the-world-wears-bifocals/ |url-access= |access-date=March 23, 2021 |work=The Austin Chronicle |date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> [[Pauline Kael]], in her aforementioned review, had echoed the same sentiments by saying, "On the screen Brando is our genius as [[Norman Mailer|[Norman] Mailer]] is our genius in literature … Paul feels so 'real' and the character is brought so close that a new dimension in screen acting has been reached."

[[Richard Brody]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' praised the personal nature of Brando's role, commenting in his review of ''[[Listen to Me Marlon]]'' (2015) that, <blockquote>"When Brando said what he himself had to say, it was indeed of a unique value. That's why the best of Brando is when he's closest to himself, as in ... Bernardo Bertolucci's ''Last Tango in Paris'', from 1972. It isn't only his words that are better than those of the screenwriters; his persona, his character, is greater than those that are scripted."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Richard |last=Brody |author-link=Richard Brody |title=Just Let Marlon Brando Talk |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/just-let-marlon-brando-talk |url-access=limited |access-date=July 15, 2020 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=July 30, 2015}}</ref></blockquote> In 2019, actor [[Brad Pitt]] said the film from the past he'd most like to have starred in is ''Last Tango in Paris'', "Brando. That one hurts."<ref>{{cite web|first=Jacob |last=Stolworthy |title=Brad Pitt says he wants to be 'spliced into' infamous 1970s film Last Tango in Paris |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/brad-pitt-margot-robbie-last-tango-in-paris-rape-controversy-once-upon-time-hollywood-tarantino-a9048996.html |access-date=August 26, 2020 |work=The Independent |date=August 9, 2019}}</ref> ''[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]]'' had named Brando's performance the 27th-greatest film performance of all time in April 2006.<ref>{{cite news|title=100 Greatest Movie Performances of All Time by Premiere Magazine § Part 3 |url=https://www.filmsite.org/100greatperformances3.html |access-date=March 23, 2021 |website=[[Filmsite.org]] }}</ref>

The film was given a nationwide release on February 7, 1973, and grossed $36 million in the United States and Canada,<ref name=mojo/> [[1973 in film#Highest-grossing films|the seventh highest-grossing film of 1973]].

=== Other international responses ===
[[British Board of Film Classification|British censors]] reduced the duration of the [[sodomy]] sequence before permitting the film to be released in the United Kingdom,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sbbfc.co.uk/CaseStudies/Last_Tango_in_Paris |title=Case Study: ''Last Tango in Paris'' |website=Students' British Board of Film Classification page |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091211065556/http://www.sbbfc.co.uk/CaseStudies/Last_Tango_in_Paris |archive-date=11 December 2009}}</ref> though it is not cut in later releases. [[Mary Whitehouse]], a Christian morality campaigner, expressed outrage that the film had been certified "X" rather than banned outright, and Labour MP [[Maurice Edelman]] denounced the classification as "a licence to degrade".<ref>{{cite news|first=Geoffrey|last=Macnab|date=22 June 2007|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/last-tango-in-paris-can-it-arouse-the-same-passions-now-454083.html|title=Last Tango in Paris: Can it Arouse the Same Passions Now?|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091230060928/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/last-tango-in-paris-can-it-arouse-the-same-passions-now-454083.html|archive-date=30 December 2009}}</ref>

The film was censored in Spain during the [[Franquismo|Franco regime]] and was not released until December 1977.<ref>Giniger, Henry. "Spaniards Seeing 'Tango' in France". ''The New York Times'', 16 de abril de 1973, pg. 49</ref> [[Chile]] banned the film entirely for nearly thirty years under its military government,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/13/world/after-banning-1092-movies-chile-relaxes-its-censorship.html |title=After Banning 1,092 Movies, Chile Relaxes Its Censorship |date=13 December 2002 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> and the film was similarly suppressed in [[Portugal]], until the [[Carnation Revolution]] in 1974, when its première became an example of the freedom democracy allows.<ref name="tonight ggs">{{cite news |url= https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/movies/gratuitous-gore-and-sex-971425 |title=Gratuitous Gore and Sex |last=Davis |first=Laura |date=17 August 2009 |work=Tonight |publisher=Tonight & Independent Online |access-date=2010-03-19 |location=New Zealand}}</ref>  The same happened in [[Brazil]] during the period of [[Military dictatorship in Brazil|military dictatorship]] when the film was censored, until it was finally released in 1979.<ref>{{cite web |title=Após 7 anos proibido, censura liberou 'Último Tango em Paris' |url=http://m.acervo.estadao.com.br/noticias/acervo,apos-7-anos-proibido-censura-liberou-ultimo-tango-em-paris-em-1979,70003076480,0.htm |website=Estadão |access-date=11 January 2021 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>  Other countries that banned it include [[Argentina]],<ref name="google1969">{{cite book|date=2015-05-22|title=Censorship: A World Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDqsCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA807|access-date=2016-01-11|page=807|isbn=9781136798641|last1=Jones|first1=Derek|publisher=Routledge }}</ref> [[South Korea]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/916135--bertolucci-revisited-another-tango-with-the-master-of-taboo |title=Bertolucci revisited: Another tango with the master of taboo |date=5 January 2011 |work=thestar.com |location=Toronto |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023080923/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/916135--bertolucci-revisited-another-tango-with-the-master-of-taboo |archive-date=2012-10-23}}</ref> [[Singapore]],<ref name="tonight ggs" /><ref>{{cite web |title=The Exorcist on Film Classification Database |url=https://app.imda.gov.sg/Classification/Search/Film/SearchDetail.aspx?sType=Feature&sRowID=AAAH4UAAPAAAA7qAAc |website=Info-communications Media Development Authority |access-date=20 March 2017 |archive-date=21 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321082006/https://app.imda.gov.sg/Classification/Search/Film/SearchDetail.aspx?sType=Feature&sRowID=AAAH4UAAPAAAA7qAAc |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Venezuela]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=27 November 2018|title=Bernardo Bertolucci, cronista de la soledad del hombre moderno|url=https://www.eluniversal.com/entretenimiento/26784/bernardo-bertolucci-cronista-de-la-soledad-del-hombre-moderno|access-date=24 March 2020|website=[[El Universal (Caracas)|El Universal]]|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Forero|first=Ana|date=22 February 2015|title=A la sombra de las sombras de Grey - César Miguel Rondón|url=https://www.cesarmiguelrondon.com/intereses/tambien-sucede/las-sombra-de-las-sombras-de-grey/|access-date=24 March 2020|website=César Miguel Rondon|language=es}}</ref>

In Australia, the film was released uncut with an R certificate by the [[Australian Classification Board]] on 1 February 1973. It received a VHS release by [[Warner Home Video]] with the same classification on 1 January 1987, forbidding sale or hire to anyone under the age of 18.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.classification.gov.au/Pages/View.aspx?sid=70tr0BFXkCqqhXJPRdSvUw%253d%253d&ncdctx=8JO1XlJQbIesPMapwiKVoO6RrlFeDeonhKVG5hjSB7Bh70Z4AqbI7%252fgXOBFryVW%2bSIcKn96R9MBIj1WNylQ6YQ%253d%253d |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223152744/http://www.classification.gov.au/Pages/View.aspx?sid=70tr0BFXkCqqhXJPRdSvUw%253d%253d&ncdctx=8JO1XlJQbIesPMapwiKVoO6RrlFeDeonhKVG5hjSB7Bh70Z4AqbI7%252fgXOBFryVW%2bSIcKn96R9MBIj1WNylQ6YQ%253d%253d |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 February 2014 |title=View Title: Last Tango in Paris |work=Australian Classification Board|access-date=16 February 2014}}</ref>

In Canada, the film was banned by the [[Alcohol and Gaming Authority|Nova Scotia Board of Censors]], leading to the landmark 1978 [[Supreme Court of Canada]] split decision in ''[[Nova Scotia (Board of Censors) v McNeil]]'', which upheld the provinces' right to censor films.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scc.lexum.org/cgi/sccOldPaths.pl?/en/1978/1978scr2-662/1978scr2-662.html |title=Supreme Court of Canada – Decisions |publisher=Scc.lexum.org |access-date=20 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614035532/http://scc.lexum.org/en/1978/1978scr2-662/1978scr2-662.html |archive-date=14 June 2012 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

=== Legacy ===
''[[Being Maria]]'', a film based on Maria Schneider's experiences working on ''Last Tango in Paris'', was released in 2024, having its premiere at the [[2024 Cannes Film Festival|77th Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Croll |first=Ben |date=2024-01-15 |title='Being Maria': Anamaria Vartolomei and Matt Dillon on 'Challenge' of Embodying Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Upcoming Biopic (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/global/matt-dillon-anamaria-vartolomei-being-maria-maria-schneider-marlon-brando-biopic-1235869203/ |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=mraultpauillac |date=2024-05-08 |title=The Screenings Guide of the 77th Festival de Cannes |url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2024/the-screenings-guide-of-the-77th-festival-de-cannes/ |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=Festival de Cannes |language=en-US}}</ref> The film was directed by [[Jessica Palud]] and adapted from [[Vanessa Schneider]]'s 2018 memoir ''My Cousin Maria Schneider''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-01 |title=Jessica Palud's Being Maria is currently rolling |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/443234/ |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=Cineuropa - the best of european cinema |language=en}}</ref>

Also released in 2024, the biopic [[Waltzing with Brando|''Waltzing with Brando'']] depicts the period between 1969 and 1974 in which Brando was preparing to star in ''[[The Godfather]]'' and ''Last Tango in Paris''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clarke |first=Stewart |date=2019-01-11 |title=Billy Zane to Play Marlon Brando in Indie Movie 'Waltzing With Brando' (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/billy-zane-as-marlon-brando-in-waltzing-with-brando-1203105744/ |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Paul |first=Larisha |date=2024-11-05 |title=Billy Zane's Marlon Brando Trades Hollywood for Tahiti in 'Waltzing With Brando' Trailer |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/waltzing-with-brando-trailer-billy-zane-1235154137/ |access-date=2025-02-03 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Cinémathèque française screening controversy ===
In December 2024, a planned screening of ''Last Tango in Paris'' at the Parisian theater [[Cinémathèque française]] was cancelled after women's rights groups protested the showing due to the film's infamous rape scene. French actress [[Judith Godrèche]] also protested the theater's decision to show the film without context given to the rape scene, writing on [[Instagram]]: "It’s time to wake up, dear Cinémathèque, and restore humanity to a 19-year-old actor by behaving humanely." The cinema's director, Frédéric Bonnaud, stated that the decision to pull the film was because "We are a cinema, not a fortress. We cannot take risks with the safety of our staff and audience," and stated that "Violent individuals were beginning to make threats and holding this screening and debate posed an entirely disproportionate risk."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Willsher |first=Kim |date=2024-12-16 |title=Last Tango in Paris screening in French capital cancelled amid women's rights protests |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/16/last-tango-in-paris-screening-cancelled-after-womens-rights-protests |access-date=2025-01-09 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> His statements led to further criticism from feminist groups, who accused him as posing as a victim, and stating he should have instead apologized for wanting to screen the film to begin with. The 50/50 Collective, another women's rights group, had called on the Cinématheque to provide "thoughtful and respectful" place for Schneider’s testimony and experience alongside the screening.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-16 |title=French cinema cancels 'Last Tango in Paris' screening over rape-scene protest |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241216-french-cinema-cancels-last-tango-in-paris-screening-after-protests |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=France 24 |language=en}}</ref> Other feminists stated they would have approved of the screening had a discussion been had after the screening and a note handed to the viewers describing the non-consensual background of the scene.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Paris |first=Adam Sage |date=2024-12-16 |title=Festival axes screening of Last Tango in Paris over protest fears |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/festival-axes-screening-last-tango-in-paris-v088v9hsm |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=www.thetimes.com |language=en}}</ref>

=== Accolades ===
In 2002, the film ranked #48 on [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions|AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions]].<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/passions100.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624052654/http://afi.com/Docs/100Years/passions100.pdf |archive-date=June 24, 2016 |access-date=August 20, 2016 |publisher=American Film Institute}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+Accolades for ''Last Tango in Paris''
|-
! scope="col"| Organization
! scope="col"| Year
! scope="col"| Category
! scope="col"| Recipient(s)
! scope="col"| Result
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{Ref heading}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| [[Academy Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[46th Academy Awards|1974]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1974|title=The 46th Academy Awards {{pipe}} 1974|date=4 October 2014 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]|access-date=October 12, 2024}}</ref>}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| rowspan="2"| [[Marlon Brando]]
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[27th British Academy Film Awards|1974]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor in a Leading Role]]
| {{nom}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://awards.bafta.org/award/1974/film|title=Film in 1974 {{pipe}} BAFTA Awards|publisher=[[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]]|access-date=October 12, 2024}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[David di Donatello|David di Donatello Awards]]
| 1973
| Special David
| [[Maria Schneider (actress)|Maria Schneider]]
| {{won}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/cinema/approfondimenti/ultimo-tango-a-parigi-film|title=''Ultimo Tango a Parigi'', 50 anni fa il film usciva al cinema in Italia|trans-title=''Last Tango in Paris'' was released in Italian theaters 50 years ago|work=[[Sky TG24]]|language=Italian|date=December 22, 2022|access-date=October 12, 2024}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[26th Directors Guild of America Awards|1974]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directing in a Feature Film]]
| [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]
| {{nom}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1970s/1973.aspx?value=1973|title=26th Annual DGA Awards|publisher=[[Directors Guild of America]]|access-date=October 12, 2024}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[31st Golden Globe Awards|1974]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
| ''Last Tango in Paris''
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://goldenglobes.com/film/last-tango-in-paris/|title=''Last Tango in Paris'' {{pipe}} Golden Globes|publisher=[[Hollywood Foreign Press Association]]|access-date=October 12, 2024}}</ref>}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| [[Grammy Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[16th Annual Grammy Awards|1974]]
| [[Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media|Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media]]
| [[Gato Barbieri]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/gato-barbieri/994|title=Gato Barbieri {{pipe}} Grammy Awards|publisher=[[The Recording Academy]]|access-date=October 12, 2024}}</ref>}}
|-
| [[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition|Best Instrumental Composition]]
| [[Gato Barbieri]] <small>(for "Theme from ''Last Tango in Paris''")</small>
| {{won}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Nastro d'Argento|Nastro d'Argento Awards]]
| 1973
| [[Nastro d'Argento for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]
| {{won}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nastridargento.it/1973-2/|title=1973 Nastro d'Argento Awards|publisher=Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani|language=Italian|access-date=October 12, 2024}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[National Society of Film Critics|National Society of Film Critics Awards]]
| [[1973 National Society of Film Critics Awards|1974]]
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| rowspan="2"| [[Marlon Brando]]
| {{won}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/07/archives/film-by-truffaut-named-best-of73-day-for-night-is-chosen-by.html|title=Film by Truffaut Named Best of '73|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 7, 1974|access-date=October 12, 2024}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[New York Film Critics Circle|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| [[1973 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|1974]]
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| {{won}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|last=Weiler|first=A. H.|author-link=A. H. Weiler|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/09/archives/day-for-night-wins-film-critics-award.html|title='Day for Night' Wins Film Critics|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 9, 1974|access-date=October 12, 2024}}</ref>}}
|}