It is a big, empty apartment, with a lot of sunlight but curiously little cheer. The movie begins when Jeanne, who is about to be married, goes apartment-hunting and finds Paul in one of the apartments. The girl, Jeanne, is not a friend and is hardly even a companion it's just that because she happens to wander into his life, he uses her as an object of his grief.
The events that take place in the everyday world are remote to Paul, whose attention is absorbed by the gradual breaking of his heart. Brando's monologue beside his dead wife has sent many a film student into a paroxysm of pleasure in this groundbreaking erotic drama from acclaimed director Bertolucci (THE CONFORMIST, THE LAST EMPEROR).Bertolucci begins with a story so simple (which is to say, so stripped of any clutter of plot) that there is little room in it for anything but the emotional crisis of his hero. Nothing is taboo in their relationship, but confrontation comes when Paul breaks the spell of impersonality. While Paul clearly hopes to forget about his wife, Jeanne is simply overwhelmed by her fiancé (Jean-Pierre Leaud, in a somewhat Bertolucci-satirizing role), a filmmaker who wants her to be his subject and inspiration. The two become intimate and have a heated affair, carried on without names, in the apartment where they first met. One day, while wandering through an apartment that is available for rent, he encounters Jeanne (Maria Schneider), a lovely Parisian girl (she's 20 to Paul's 45) who is also viewing the apartment.
But when his wife commits suicide, Paul goes into an existential tailspin. Marlon Brando incorporated details from his own life into the character of Paul, the globetrotting American who finally settled into a marriage and proprietorship of a fleabag hotel in Paris.
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