Originally posted by DonVitoCorleone: Very underrated movie IMO.
underrated? It raised a hell of a lot of uproars in early 70s.....(it was widely denounced as obscene and eventually banned at least here in Italy, only to be rehabilitated many years later!...almost impossible to believe it some 30 years later....) It received a bunch of oscar nominations and other movie awards and is generally considered Bertolucci's masterpiece.
I'm not a huge fan of the movie (nor of Bertolucci) but this is definitely a must-see, if only for Brando's outstanding performance. And the music score by Gato Barbieri. All the fuss over the sex scenes is very idiotic IMO. This is not a movie about sex. This is a movie about solitude and desperation. It's a pity that it is mostly remembered for the unconventional use of butter it displays...
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth (Blanche/A streetcar named desire)
It raised a hell of a lot of uproars in early 70s.....(it was widely denounced as obscene and eventually banned at least here in Italy, only to be rehabilitated many years later!...almost impossible to believe it some 30 years later....) It received a bunch of oscar nominations and other movie awards and is generally considered Bertolucci's masterpiece.
