
If ever a film deserved an upgrade from its crummy-looking DVD incarnation it's Last Tango In Paris (20th Century Fox), in which Marlon Brando plays an expatriate in Paris haunted by the suicide of his wife. He bumps into a pretty 20-year-old (Maria Schneider) while checking out a rental apartment and they enter into a clandestine sexual relationship without knowing each others names. Of course, this freewheeling sexual odyssey comes at a price. This controversial 1972 film by Bernardo Bertolucci deservedly won Marlon Brando an Oscar nomination for his lacerating performance (work he admitted took him to such a dark place he refused to ever lay bare himself like that again on film, and never did). Director of cinematography Vittorio Storaro's sumptuous colors are restored and Gato Barbieri's astonishing score sounds crisp and intoxicating. Still a bold and fascinating film after all these years. Bring on the butter....