BEING MARIA

Maria is a young, struggling actress with promise. When an emerging Italian director casts her to headline a new film alongside an American superstar, her dreams are coming true. But what seems like a big breakthrough turns out to be the start of a living hell. That movie is Last Tango in Paris. The actress is Maria Schneider. A story that exemplifies the influence of toxic masculinity in the realm of the spectacle, an anatomy of (structural) violence and the trauma that wrecked the psyche of a young actress, but mostly a daring portrait that underlines the double standards of cancel culture, as well as the burning imperativeness of the victims’ memory.