

You wrote in your autobiography that you couldn’t get an erection. I told him I didn’t see the film that way, so he backed off.


You’re one of the very few macho male stars who cry a lot.īertolucci wanted frontal nudity, real fucking. Jeanne is a 20-year-old Parisian actress.ĭotted through the film are couples dancing the tango in an exaggerated way to loud campy music. Paul is a 45-year-old American whose wife Rose just committed suicide with his shaving razor. Paul insists they not confide anything of their past. Orchestrated by Paul, the two have an ongoing affair in the vacant apartment. Paul and Jeanne–Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider–meet inadvertently at an apartment for rent in the Passy quarter of Paris.
