French actress Maria Schneider has died in Paris at the age of 58 after a long illness on Thursday. She was best known as Marlon Brando's co-star in the 1972 controversial film "Last Tango in Paris."
Born Maria Christine Gelin to French actor Daniel Gelin and Marie-Christine Schneider in 1972 in Paris, Schneider was only 19 when she was cast opposite Brando, who 48 at that time, in Bernardo Bertolucci's film.
She played a young engaged Parisian woman who embarks on a passionate affair with a recently widowed American businessman.
The film gathered a lot of controversy because it featured a lot of nudity and a sodomy scene that infamously used butter as lubricant.
Born Maria Christine Gelin to French actor Daniel Gelin and Marie-Christine Schneider in 1972 in Paris, Schneider was only 19 when she was cast opposite Brando, who 48 at that time, in Bernardo Bertolucci's film.
She played a young engaged Parisian woman who embarks on a passionate affair with a recently widowed American businessman.
The film gathered a lot of controversy because it featured a lot of nudity and a sodomy scene that infamously used butter as lubricant.
- 2/4/2011
- icelebz.com
Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. The scandalous film was reviled by Lucille Ball, admired by Robert Altman, and reinterpreted by Ingmar Bergman Maria Schneider, best known for her sex scenes with Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972), died of cancer earlier today in Paris. Schneider was 58. [Addendum: In a strange coincidence, Lena Nyman, the star of the controversial, sexually-charged 1967 Swedish drama I Am Curious (Yellow), died the day after Schneider. Nyman was 66.] The daughter of actor Daniel Gélin and Romanian-born French model Marie Christine Schneider (also a bookstore owner, according to some reports), Maria Schneider was born in Paris on March 27, 1952. At the time, Gélin was married to actress Danièle Delorme; as a result, Schneider was raised by her mother near the Franco-German border. Schneider fled home when she was 15, ending up in Paris where she [...]...
- 2/4/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
French actor whose youthful role in Last Tango in Paris was to dominate her career
Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972) revolves around the spontaneous sexual chemistry between a bitter middle-aged American widower and a naive French girl about to be married. They are drawn into an entirely physical relationship, some of it involving butter, after a chance meeting in an empty Paris apartment. They know nothing about each other, not even their names. The man was played by one of the most famous and admired actors in the world, Marlon Brando. The woman, Maria Schneider, was completely unknown. For better or worse, it was the role with which Schneider, who has died of cancer aged 58, would always be associated.
According to the critic Roger Ebert: "Maria Schneider doesn't seem to act her role so much as to exude it. On the basis of this movie, indeed, it's...
Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972) revolves around the spontaneous sexual chemistry between a bitter middle-aged American widower and a naive French girl about to be married. They are drawn into an entirely physical relationship, some of it involving butter, after a chance meeting in an empty Paris apartment. They know nothing about each other, not even their names. The man was played by one of the most famous and admired actors in the world, Marlon Brando. The woman, Maria Schneider, was completely unknown. For better or worse, it was the role with which Schneider, who has died of cancer aged 58, would always be associated.
According to the critic Roger Ebert: "Maria Schneider doesn't seem to act her role so much as to exude it. On the basis of this movie, indeed, it's...
- 2/4/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
French actress Maria Schneider has died in Paris after a long illness reports Reuters. She was 58 years old.
Daughter of late French actor Daniel Gélin and model Marie-Christine Schneider, she became internationally famous at just 20 years old when she starred alongside then 48-year-old Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s infamous 1972 romance "Last Tango in Paris".
Other roles include Franco Zeffirelli’s 1992 adaptation of "Jane Eyre", Jacques Rivette's "Merry-Go-Round," Dominique Goult's "Haine," Nouchka van Brakel's "A Woman Like Eve," Cyril Collard's "Savage Nights", Josiane Balasko’s "Cliente", and Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" alongside Jack Nicholson.
Daughter of late French actor Daniel Gélin and model Marie-Christine Schneider, she became internationally famous at just 20 years old when she starred alongside then 48-year-old Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s infamous 1972 romance "Last Tango in Paris".
Other roles include Franco Zeffirelli’s 1992 adaptation of "Jane Eyre", Jacques Rivette's "Merry-Go-Round," Dominique Goult's "Haine," Nouchka van Brakel's "A Woman Like Eve," Cyril Collard's "Savage Nights", Josiane Balasko’s "Cliente", and Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" alongside Jack Nicholson.
- 2/3/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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