Being Maria

  • History
  • Drama
6/19/2024
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The true story of Maria Schneider behind the making of Last Tango in Paris.

A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as her big breakthrough quickly turns into a living hell.

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  • Brent_Marchant

    In an age when rights and protections for women are increasingly being placed in jeopardy, their preservation is imperative, and nowhere is this more apparent perhaps than in writer-director Jessica Paluds latest feature. In this flashback to a time when things were very different for women, the filmmaker places the spotlight on the sexist, demeaning demands that were placed on actress Maria Schneider (1952-2011) (Anamaria Vartolomei). Schneiders big career break came at age 19, when she was cast opposite screen legend Marlon Brando (Matt Dillon) in Last Tango in Paris (1972), the highly controversial hyper-erotic feature from director Bernardo Bertolucci (Giuseppe Maggio). What should have been a tremendous opportunity for the aspiring act...

    May 3, 2025

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