Last Tango in Paris
Where the DNA of Last Tango in Paris travels
Films it shaped
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When I discovered films like 'Last Tango in Paris' or Pasolini's 'Salò', it was like I found my identity. They made me feel less alone and allowed me to express myself.
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Paul Schrader, director of 'The Canyons', stated: 'What if you went back to the late ’60s/early ’70s European sex film, like Bertolucci’s Last Tango In Paris... or those films where you have these upper-class people in a beautiful apartment, and they’re bored, and they have sex and drugs, and they play games?' in describing an aesthetic influence for 'The Canyons'.
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When I did 'Love,' I was very much influenced by movies about love, like 'In the Realm of the Senses,' 'Nymphomaniac,' 'Blue Is the Warmest Color,' and also old films like 'Last Tango in Paris,' but more for the emotional side than the explicit part.
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Like Last Tango in Paris or Kids or Irreversible are movies that try to show, in the most frontal way, the difficulty of human relationships and how violence is part of human relationships and how sexuality is part of human relationships, and the violence of sexuality.
