Authenticity, Role-Playing and Leading Double Lives in Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris

One of the movies that had been on my watchlist for a verylong time, we may be even talking decades here, is Bernardo Bertolucci’s notoriousand controversial Last Tango in Paris. Bertolucci was known to oftenpush the envelope, yet in this case, it may have backfired a bit. It seems thatthe film got a lot of attention and publicity for the wrong reasons and for itssomewhat shallower and superficial aspects, which overshadowed its different strengthsalongside the depth expressed in this idio...