Ultimo tango a Parigi

"When you see a love story, it's only a movie. When you feel it with every nerve in your body, it's a masterpiece."

Feb 7 1973 NC-17 2h 9m

Drama, Romance

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

Plot

While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.