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THE BUTTER SCENE applies a critical feminist lens onto one of cinema's most controversial rape scenes, the 'butter scene' from Bernardo Bertolucci's film, Last Tango in Paris (1972). Starring a forty-eight-year-old Marlon Brando and a nineteen-year-old Maria Schneider, it is now known that the filming of that scene involved actual, real life abuse. In a 2007 interview, four years before her death, Schneider discussed the scene in detail, saying that it wasn't in the script and that it was impose

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Crew

Director
Kate Blackmore
Writers
Kate Blackmore
Producer
Bethany Bruce
Dir. of Photography
Meg White
Editor
Kate Blackmore

Cast

Tara Morice - William Zappa

Production Details

Production Completion
2021
Production Company
Staple Fiction Pty Ltd

Selected Awards & Festivals