A screening of Last Tango in Paris, which features a rape scene filmed without the consent of actress Maria Schneider, has been canceled at the renowned Cinémathèque française in Paris. The decision came after a wave of criticism from women’s rights groups, the cinema announced.
At a minimum it’s sexual assualt, there was no penetration, which is usually how laws define rape, which creates a lot of problems itself, but that all aside, I agree it’s rape, they didn’t tell her because they thought it would make the scene more realistic, which is pretty insane…