After the suicide of his wife Rosa, 45-year-old Paul, an American living in Paris, seems to have lost all will to live. Wandering aimlessly through the city, he meets 20-year-old Jeanne. A passionate and consuming relationship soon ignites between them.

“The look, feel and sound of the film are evocative. The music by Gato Barbieri is sometimes counterpoint, sometimes lament, but it is never simply used to tell us how to feel.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“When Brando improvises within Bertolucci’s structure, his full art is realized; his performance is intuitive, rapt, princely. Working with Brando, Bertolucci achieves realism with the terror of actual experience still alive on the screen.”
Pauline Kael, The New Yorker