

In that scene, Brando, who was 48 at the time, sodomises Schneider’s character using a stick of butter as lubricant. The film, which starred Marlon Brando as an American widow who begins a torrid affair with a young Parisian woman played by Maria Schneider, shocked the world when it was first released due to its graphic sex scenes.īut one in particular stood out for its brutality. The Italian director died yesterday at the age of 77 following a glittering film career spanning more than half a century and netted him multiple Oscars.īut while he was recognised for a string of hit movies such as T he Conformist, The Sheltering Sky and Stealing Beauty, it is one horrific scene from the 1972 flick Last Tango In Paris that is most firmly etched in the public’s memory. Nearly a decade ago, Maria Schneider revealed the unsettling details surrounding an infamous rape scene in the 1972 drama Last Tango in Paris, in which Marlon Brando’s character uses butter as a.


A rape scene which shocked the world and left a teenage actor scarred for decades has overshadowed the illustrious career of late filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci.
