
They are so delicately modulated … that romance and rot are one,” Kael wrote in her review. “The colors in this movie are late-afternoon orange-beige-browns and pink – the pink of flesh drained of blood, corpse pink. While the movie was banned in Bertolucci’s home country of Italy, it also won the director acclaim – after its US premiere, Pauline Kael, The New Yorker’s film critic, branded it the “most powerfully erotic movie ever made.” (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Andrew Medichini/APīernardo Bertolucci, Italian director of 'Last Tango in Paris,' dies at age 77 26, 2018, in an email to The Associated Press.

Bertolucci's press office, Punto e Virgola, confirmed the death Monday, Nov.

Bertolucci, who won Oscars with "The Last Emperor" and whose erotic drama "Last Tango in Paris" enthralled and shocked the world, has died at the age of 77. 18, 2012, Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci poses for photographers during a photo call in Rome.
