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'Last Tango in Paris' at UA

Continuing its International Film Series, the International Arts Society will screen Bernardo Bertolucci's daring and sexually explicit 1973 film, "The Last Tango in Paris" tonight. The film's erotic themes set the precedent for continued explorations into the nature of sexual desire and its deep correlation to the workings of the human psyche.

The story centers around the relationship between Paul (Marlon Bran-do), an American expatriate who is haunted by a past that includes his wife's recent suicide, and Jeanne (Maria Schnei-der), a young actress who is engaged to a French film-maker. The love affair is set, of course, in Paris.

Paul's rules for sexual trysts with the young Jeanne permit no personal histories, no promises of future liaisons and no ties to the outside world. "No names," Paul tells her, "nothing is real outside this room."

Thus, the stage is set for the sexual facade to unravel into a haunting examination of the emotional boundaries that are confronted and traversed within the sexual world that Jeanne and Paul establish for themselves.