{"id":20041,"date":"2024-11-22T22:25:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T22:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=20041"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:37:13","slug":"being-maria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/being-maria-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BEING MARIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BEING MARIA<\/h2>\n

| 2025 – 100′\u00a0 – Drama, BIOPIC
\nWritten by: Jessica Palud, Laurette Polmanss.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Jessica Palud.
\nStarring:\u00a0Anamaria Vartolomei,\u00a0Matt Dillon,\u00a0Yvan Attal, Marie Gillain, C\u00e9leste Brunnquell, Stanislas Merhar, Giuseppe Maggio.
\nOfficial Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2024.
\nOfficial Competition\u00a0TAFFF 2024<\/b>\u00a0(North American Premiere).
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Kino Lorber\u00a0release. |<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the early 1970s. The illegitimate daughter of a French character actor, Maria (Anamaria Vartolomei) is an aspiring young actress, herself. At 19, she miraculously lands the female lead in a groundbreaking feature film by a brilliant up-and-coming Italian director. She\u2019ll be playing opposite one of America\u2019s most formidable movie stars. But what seems like a dream come true turns out to be a nightmare. The actress is Maria Schneider. Her co-star is Marlon Brando. The director is Bernardo Bertolucci. The movie is\u00a0Last Tango in Paris. A highly erotic art film, its raw depiction of rape and graphic sexuality led to international controversy and drew various levels of censorship around the world. The MPAA gave the film an X rating. Bertolucci and Brando both received suspended two-month prison sentences in Italy. But long before the advent of #MeToo and intimacy counsellors, the real toll of the brutal, intentionally calculated on-set sexual and emotional manipulation fell upon Schneider. It devastated her entire life.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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