It was a scene that scarred the life of a young actress and left a stain on the career of Bernardo Bertolucci, one of cinema's most talented directors, who died Monday of cancer aged 77. Before #MeToo and the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the notorious "butter scene" in Bertolucci's 1972 film "Last TangoInParis" had been seen as the nadir of the film industry's treatment of women. In it, the young French actress Maria Schneider, who was 19 at the time, is depicted as being anally raped by the middle-aged Marlon Brando on aParisapartment floor with the aid of a lump of butter. Its visceral sexual violence saw the film banned in several countries and sparked a screen myth that the...
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