brownie Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 French actress Maria Schneider who costarred with Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial film 'Last Tango in Paris' died in Paris of cancer. She was 58. Story in The Guardian. After 'Last Tango', she appeared in several films including Michelangelo Antonioni's 'The Passenger' and Jacques Rivette's 'Merry Go-Round'. Quote
Ken Dryden Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 (edited) French actress Maria Schneider who costarred with Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial film 'Last Tango in Paris' died in Paris of cancer. She was 58. Story in The Guardian. After 'Last Tango', she appeared in several films including Michelangelo Antonioni's 'The Passenger' and Jacques Rivette's 'Merry Go-Round'. Your subject line looked funny in the organissimo preview window, showing "Actress Maria Schneider dies by Brownie." Edited February 3, 2011 by Ken Dryden Quote
sidewinder Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 Shocking - and very sad news. Of course, way, way too young. RIP I don't think she ever really recovered her career after 'Last Tango' - which is damn sad in itself. If ever there was a thread that made me feel old, this is it ! Quote
mikeweil Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 Shocking - just a year aolder than me! That photo is shocking, too - she looks at least ten years older ... must have gone through many things. I liked her much more in the Antonioni movie than in the Last Tango ... too bad actresses are pigeonholed that much. R.I.P. Quote
JSngry Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 I was going to be a wiseguy & post an image of a stick of butter, but learning that she suffered from mental instability, possibly exacerbated by that scene and/or its fallout changed my mind. Sex is beautiful, and crazyass sex is even more beautiful, but only sometimes and for/with some people. The whole "no limits" thing eventually hits the wall of bullshit, sooner or later. RIP, with the emphasis, hopefully, on Peace. Quote
P.L.M Posted February 4, 2011 Report Posted February 4, 2011 (edited) Funny to read what she declares about the famous scene with the butter. Brando also accuses Bertolucci to have steal something intimate from him in "Last Tango". Aniway the scene was an absolute fake and seen with the eyes of today absolutely impossible to believe than something was happening betweeen them. I don't think that this scene has anything to do with her "mental illness". Drugs yes. But not "sex scene" in films (she has few in most of the film she has donne in her short career). I met her once when she was playing in a stupid belgian film in the eighties. She was still beautiful but completely fucked up in her head. Impossible to have any real contact with her. I think that her main problem was that she makes, after Bertolucci and Antoniono, the worst choice for her film career. But, to say the truth outside of be fresh, sexy and spontaneous, she had no real acting talent. Aniway, 58 is certainly to young to die. Edited February 4, 2011 by P.L.M Quote
Dave James Posted February 4, 2011 Report Posted February 4, 2011 I think I'm going to go ahead and remember her like this: Quote
brownie Posted February 4, 2011 Author Report Posted February 4, 2011 Obituary in The New York Times today. Quote
Van Basten II Posted February 4, 2011 Report Posted February 4, 2011 (edited) When I read the line somewhere else it just said Maria Schneider dies and I thought of the conductor, although I'm less familiar and emotively connected with her it still is sad...RIP Edited February 4, 2011 by Van Basten II Quote
Free For All Posted February 4, 2011 Report Posted February 4, 2011 When I read the line somewhere else it just said Maria Schneider dies and I thought of the conductor Yeah, well read THIS obit a friend sent me. Unbelievable! Quote
bertrand Posted February 4, 2011 Report Posted February 4, 2011 Holy crap - how incompetent. He obviously googled the name and called it a day. Bertrand. Quote
king ubu Posted February 4, 2011 Report Posted February 4, 2011 She was wonderful in Antonioni's great film... never liked "Last Tango" that much - boring, and Brando a pretentious heap of crap... Quote
sidewinder Posted February 5, 2011 Report Posted February 5, 2011 never liked "Last Tango" that much - boring, and Brando a pretentious heap of crap... Very much 'of it's time' - certainly an unusual film. And then there's the Gato Barbieri sound track and the disturbing Francis Bacon images at the beginning of the film (highly relevant I think). Quote
brownie Posted February 5, 2011 Author Report Posted February 5, 2011 There is one word for 'Last Tango in Paris': crepuscular. From the french crepusculaire, but not really the same crepuscule as in Crepuscule with Nellie. I happen to be in awe of Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider's performances in the film. Also the preparation of the film was my unique opportunity to see Brando in person when he came (with Bertolucci) to the Salle Wagram to attend a concert by Gato Barbieri. A number of sequences of the film were shot at Salle Wagram. Too bad the film doomed Maria Schneider's career! Quote
king ubu Posted February 5, 2011 Report Posted February 5, 2011 Gato's music is good of course. Apart from the few shots in Paris probably the part of the film I liked best. Quote
sidewinder Posted February 5, 2011 Report Posted February 5, 2011 There is one word for 'Last Tango in Paris': crepuscular. I hear you! End of an era, presumably? Quote
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