Crazed with grief after his wife commits suicide, Paul, an American expatriate, roams the streets of Paris until, while apartment hunting, he faces Jeanne, an unknown girl across an empty room. Brutally, without a word, he rapes the soon-complaint stranger. It should have been hit-and-run sex, but Paul stays at the scene of the erotic accident. While arranging his wife's funeral, Paul leases the apartment where his to meet the puzzled girl for a series of frenzied afternoons. "No names here," he roughly tells her, setting up the rules of the game. They are to shut out the world outside, forfeit their pasts and their identities. Paul degrades Jeanne in every possible way, leveling all her inhibitions into sheer brutality. Paul is soon dissatisfied with mere possession of her body; he must also have her mind. When she rejects his mad love to enter a comfortable marriage with her dull fiancé, Paul finally confesses: "I love you, you dummy."
| Release Date: | Oct 1972 |
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| Genre: | Drama / Romance |
| Awards: | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 5 nominations |
| Cast: | Marlon Brando (Paul), Maria Schneider (Jeanne), Maria Michi (Rosa's Mother / La mère de...), Giovanna Galletti (Prostitute / La prostituée), Gitt Magrini (Jeanne's Mother / La mère...), Catherine Allégret (Catherine (as Catherine Allegret)), Luce Marquand (Olympia), Marie-Hélène Breillat (Monique (as Marie-Helene Breillat)), Catherine Breillat (Mouchette), Dan Diament (TV Sound Engineer /...), Catherine Sola (TV Script Girl / La script-girl), Mauro Marchetti (TV Cameraman / Le cameraman), Jean-Pierre Léaud (Tom - un cinéaste, le...), Massimo Girotti (Marcel), Peter Schommer (TV Assistant Cameraman /...), Veronica Lazar (Rosa), Rachel Kesterber (Christine), Ramón Mendizábal (Tango Orchestra Leader / Le chanteur...), Mimi Pinson (President of Tango Jury / Le...), Darling Légitimus (La concierge), Gérard Lepennec (Un déménageur), Stéphan Koziak (Un déménageur), Armand Abplanalp (Prostitute's Client / Le client...), Laura Betti (Miss Blandish (scenes deleted)), Jean-Luc Bideau (Le capitaine de la péniche...), Michel Delahaye (Bible Salesman / Le vendeur de bibles...), Gianni Pulone ((scenes deleted)), Franca Sciutto ((scenes deleted)) |