Toward the end of Jessica Palud’s “Being Maria,” an uneven but poignantly restorative portrait of “Last Tango in Paris” star Maria Schneider (played here by “Happening” breakout Anamaria Vartolomei), ...

When New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wrote a long and heated rave of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris after its premiere in 1972, she stated, among other things, that “this is a movie ...

There has been a lot of noise at this year’s Cannes Film Festival about France’s accelerated MeToo movement, particularly by female cinema stars leading the charge. So whether coincidental or not, the ...

At 19, French actor Maria Schneider was launched into the spotlight for her role in the erotic drama “Last Tango in Paris.” The notorious film made her famous, but haunted the rest of her life. But ...

Maria Schneider, the French star of “Last Tango in Paris,” has died at the age of 58. The actress, who was 19 when she starred opposite 48-year-old Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci‘s 1972 film, ...

Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to “Being Maria,” a French movie revolving around the controversial production of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 film “Last Tango in Paris.” ...

The term “controversial” only begins to capture the response the film “Last Tango In Paris” evoked when it was released in the fall of 1972. A lot of films are controversial. Very few trigger such a ...

MARIA Schneider was a French actor whose most famous role was Jeanne in the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris. The movie recently sparked controversy after its director Bernardo Bertolucci revealed he did ...