Without shared names, backstories, or even a prior relationship, two strangers become entangled in a chaotic, lustful affair centered around a studio apartment in the city of love. On their own in the streets of Paris, Paul and Jeanne work their way through everything from carefree adventures to the tristesse of mourning a lost love while the apartment becomes their sultry sanctuary from the outside world. As their fling evolves into something that resembles love, the ugliness of the outside world that they both sought to escape forces its way into their relationship, changing both of them forever.

Marlon Brando plays Paul, the middle-aged man who uses the apartment to escape from a traumatic death, while Maria Schneider stars opposite as Jeanne, an exuberant Parisian woman who uses the fling to gain a feeling of independence from prior emotional commitments. With lush cinematography by three-time Academy Award winner Vittorio Storaro and a carefully structured narrative co-written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango In Paris pushes the boundaries of cinema in the city of its birth.

These are same frame comparison screenshots from the Tigole encode of the old Sony blu-ray release: