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Maria Schneider, who effort to international honour with Bernardo Bertolucci's 1972 flick Last Tango in Paris, has died after a daylong pugilism with cancer, her family told AFP. She was 58.

The land actress was meet 19 when she prefabricated the film, in which she had realistic stimulate scenes with Marlon Brando, then 48. The flick focuses on a land girl, who's ambivalent most her filmmaker-fianc and his project, and a middle-aged American pain the grief of his wife's suicide. They meet to have anonymous, no-strings-attached stimulate in a mostly unfurnished, run-down apartment.

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The flick was highly disputable at the time, and several countries illegal it. Time and Newsweek did counterbalance stories, and it provoked the most prodigal praise The New Yorker's Pauline Kael ever heaped on a film, writing that it had "altered the face of an prowess form. This is a flick grouping will be arguing most for as daylong as there are movies."

The flick conventional Academy Award nominations for Bertolucci and Brando, and prefabricated Schneider a worldwide star.

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Years later, Schneider said she felt ashamed by the stimulate scenes, adding that she "felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci."

Even though she appeared threesome eld after in sculpturer Antonioni's The Passenger, a well-regarded art-house darling starring Jack Nicholson, her stardom faded.

The girl of land actor justice Gelin, she terminal appeared in 2008's Cliente.