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Last Tango in Paris (1972)

IMPORTANCE AND ULTIMATE FAILURE OF LAST TANGO IN PARIS

Last Tango in Paris is an important film because of the way it deals with film history. By showing the inadequacy of and parodying two recent influential film styles, 1950s Hollywood and French New Wave, Bertolucci critiques and condemns the outmoded ideas and attitudes which informed these styles.

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