Last Tango in Paris

This film is one of the great emotional experiences of our time. It's a about need; about the terrible hunger that its hero, Paul, feels for the touch of another human heart. He is a man whose entire existence has been reduced to a cry for help - and who has been so damaged by life that he can only express that cry in acts of crude sexuality. The movie begins when Jeanne, who is about to be married, goes apartment-hunting and finds Paul in one of the apartments. It is a big, empty apartment, with a lot of sunlight but curiously little cheer. Paul rapes her, if rape is not too strong a word to describe an act so casually accepted by the girl. He tells her that they will continue to meet there, in the empty apartment, and she agrees.