One of the most controversial films of the ‘70s gets a naked Blu-ray release.
Reviewed by Casey Broadwater, February 27, 2011
Roger Ebert put it best in his retrospective 1995 review, with the statement that writer/director Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris "was the banner for a revolution that never happened." The failed revolution in question? The proliferation of erotic films made for and by adults, films that would maturely deal with human sexuality in all its complicated permutations and rely on dramatic depth and emotional honesty rather than mere titillation. At the time of its release, the film was sharply divisive, prompting mass walkouts and "vomiting by well-dressed wives" at its first New York screening—according to the Village Voice—but also garnering rapturous praise from critics like Pauline Kael, who hailed Last Tango as what "may turn out to be the most liberating movie ever made." Kael's review—perhaps the most widely read in the history of cinema criticism—posited the film as a "movie breakthrough" that "altered the face of an art form." She even went so far as to compare Last Tango's October 14, 1972 premiere to the riot-inducing 1913 debut of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, the ballet that upset the classical world and opened the floodgates for the incoming wave of musical modernism. And yet, the movie produced no similar wave of grown-up cinematic erotica.
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