When you see a love story, it's only a movie. When you feel it with every nerve in your body, it's a masterpiece.

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
Last Tango in Paris keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.