Directed by:
Jessica PaludCinematography:
Sébastien BuchmannComposer:
Benjamin BiolayCast:
Anamaria Vartolomei, Matt Dillon, Hugo Becker, Marie Gillain, Yvan Attal, Céleste Brunnquell, Stanislas Merhar, Giuseppe Maggio, Patrice Tepasso, Alexandre IonescuPlots(1)
Maria is a young, struggling actress with promise. When an emerging Italian director casts her to headline a new film alongside an American superstar, her dreams are coming true. But what seems like a big breakthrough turns out to be the start of a living hell. That movie is The Last Tango in Paris. The actress is Maria Schneider. (Cannes Film Festival)
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A young, novice actress’s whining that shooting an intense scene for a butter commercial with Bernardo Bertolucci and Marlon Brando ruined her life. Without mentioning that it also made her a global star (which she definitely didn’t want). The first half of the film with Matt Dillon as Brando provides an interesting behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Last Tango in Paris. In the second half, however, Being Maria is a boring, artificially dramatic film that uses a well-known event from the history of cinema to raise the profile of its creator in the post-Me-Too era. The only thing that we learn in the second half of the film is that Maria Schneider let another guy tempt her into heroin and that she found refuge in a lesbian relation (which wasn’t her first). [Cannes FF]
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