Last Tango in Paris filming locations
Film locations: France
Last Tango In Paris filming location: the apartment: rue de l'Alboni, Passy, Paris
Plenty of real Paris locations in Bernardo Bertolucci’s tragic romance, notorious for its (at the time) scenes of explicit sexuality, though more shocking for its emotional nakedness, with a blistering performance from Marlon Brando as a tormented American widower adrift in Europe.
It’s lusciously photographed on location around Paris by Vittorio Storaro, and one of those movies so rooted in its sense of place that visiting the locations feels like stepping in to the world of the film itself.
Last Tango In Paris filming location: Brando meets Schneider: Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Passy, Paris
The distraught Paul (Brando) meets stranger Jeanne (Maria Schneider) on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, in the 15th and 16th arrondissements. Originally the Passy Viaduct, this strikingly photogenic double-decker road-and-rail bridge was renamed in 1949 to commemorate battles against Rommel in the Libyan desert. See it also in Louis Malle’s Ascenseur Pour l’Echafaud (Lift to the Scaffold) and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Trois Couleurs: Bleu.
Last Tango In Paris filming location: the bar: Kennedy Eiffel Bar, avenue du President Kennedy, Passy, Paris
‘1 rue Jules Verne’, the apartment in which Paul and Jeanne energetically consummate the perversely anonymous romance, is 1 rue de l’Alboni at the end of the bridge in Passy. The wrought iron doorway can be seen at the top of the steps at the northern end of the bridge.
At the foot of the steps you’ll recognise, somewhat revamped, the bar from which Jeanne makes a phone call. It’s the Kennedy Eiffel Bar, avenue du President Kennedy.
Last Tango In Paris filming location: the last tango: the old Salle Wagram, as it used to be, avenue de Wagram, Paris
The salon, in which Paul and Jeanne disrupt the tango competition at the movie’s climax, was the old, neo-Classical Salle Wagram, 39 avenue de Wagram, just down the road from Étoile.
Last Tango In Paris filming location: Salle Wagram: under renovation?
The site is currently being redeveloped, but it’s claimed that the old salon interior is to be restored.
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The Pont de Bir-Hakeim can be seen in Louis Malle's stylish 1957 thriller Ascenseur Pour l'Echafaud and in Krzysztof Kieslowski's 1993 Trois Couleurs: Bleu, with Juliet Binoche.
The Salle Wagram has appeared in several films, too, including Claude Lelouch's 60s romance Un Homme et Une Femme and the Merchant-Ivory production Mr and Mrs Bridge, with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.