X-Rated
November, 1976
As a breakthrough movie, Last Tango in Paris looks fairly tepid compared with director Marco Ferreri's The Last Woman, a smash hit in Europe and sure to invite controversy, as well as outright animosity, over here. Plainly aware that it takes two to tango, burly Gerard Depardieu--France's answer to Albert Finney, who co-stars with Robert DeNiro in Bernardo Bertolucci's long-awaited epic 1900--avoids Brando's crotch-covering coyness and outstrips his leading lady (Ornella Muti, a ravishing Italia...
