I lived in France about three years, traveling around a lot, and then I tried London, and about six months ago I settled on here. It was getting hard to breathe in Europe - it's too compact, too compressed. She wore faded denims, smoked frequently, looked thinner and more intriguing than in "Tango," and seemed ready to revise her European image.Ī. This interview, conducted in Kohner's office, is her first in the United States.
She moved to America signed with Paul Kohner (the legendary agent who represents Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann and many other Europeans), turned down several big film offers, and moved into a house in the Hollywood hills. The film was "The Passenger," and this time her screen image was altogether different: She was quiet, intelligent, even sweet. And then she made a film with another of Europe's top directors, Michelangelo Antonioni, and another major star, Jack Nicholson.
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She gave shocking interviews, she walked off a movie set and had herself committed to an asylum with the woman she described as her lover, she seemed to be surrounded by scandal. Maria Schneider quickly became the favorite "bad girl" of the movie press. Most of the film involved just two actors, and Schneider held her own with Brando in a stunning confrontation with sex and death. The girl was Maria Schneider, a 20-year-old with an innocent face, a woman's body and an electrifying presence.
The man was Marlon Brando, long acknowledged as the finest screen actor of his generation. When the mother later discovers that his sexual interest extends to the daughter as well she blackmails him into marrying herself.LOS ANGELES-It was, said the critic Pauline Kael, perhaps the most important artistic event since the first performance of Stravinsky's "The Rites of Spring." She was referring to the 1973 premiere of "Last Tango in Paris," a film by Bernardo Bertolucci which dealt in explicit detail with a brief affair between a middle-aged man and a girl barely out of her teens.
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One episode of rather dubious taste sees a mother (type: loser, white trash) accidentally discovering that spanking her (approximately 11 year old) daughter appears to re-awaken the waning sexual interest of her boyfriend in her – and she exploits that observation like a free Viagra prescription. For example, in one episode Elise (Marie Luise Lusewitz) has Sunday morning sex with her husband, unaware that her young children are already awake and watching them through the bedroom’s keyhole her hubby finds the subsequent inquisition by the kids regarding the technical details of this weird wrestling match too hard to take and reacts in a way that gives the commentator ample opportunity for more moralizing criticism.īut other episodes are just bizarre. Thus the makers apparently believed in their message after all, even if the message does not come across very convincingly.Īs a result, some of the episodes are a strange mixture of run-of-the-mill exploitation stuff with issues concerning good or bad parenting. Watching this movie though made me think again because the moralizing aspects suddenly take centre-stage, to an extent which surely must have annoyed the film’s most likely audience – the raincoat brigade. I always had the impression that this moralizing was complete bogus, merely a gimmick to pacify censors or press. This was typically delivered in a sometimes fairly and sometimes utterly patronizing style – in the former case by the reporter and voice-over, and in the latter case by the character “Dr. The schoolgirl report movies had the habit of occasionally subjecting its audience to some moralizing, with the basic message that today’s youth was more misunderstood than depraved. However, this one specifically focuses on the coming-of-age aspects, to an extent that it also touches on delicate issues such as pedophilia. This episodic film is a close relative of Wolf Hartwig’s schoolgirl report movies, made by the same people, in a similar style, around similar topics. 1h 27min | Comedy | 17 August 1973 (West Germany)