The Last Woman

1976 "Love. Hate. Loneliness. Humor. Sensuality. Nothing will prepare you for the devastating climax."
6.4| 1h48m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 21 April 1976 Released
Producted By: Flaminia Produzioni Cinematografiche
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Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.

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Drama

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Marco Ferreri

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Flaminia Produzioni Cinematografiche

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The Last Woman Audience Reviews

Diagonaldi Very well executed
Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined
RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Sharan S My initial rating while watching this movie was a 6. Here is a movie that stands as a Gerard Depardieu version of Kramer vs Kramer. Only this movie had a whole lot of nudity and sex, and given the fact that Ornella Muti is an incredibly beautiful actress, I didn't mind that. However, the film's climax hit me hard... hard as a rock. Why would a character go to such depths to retain child custody? Why would a character, who knows that women are his weakness, go back to the addiction? I guess, there's no answer to it. It was the film's cruel climax that lowered my rating to just a 1 on 10. There were several better ways to end the movie and this was the lamest, if said controversial. I don't think this is anywhere close to what a sane man would do in a situation like that.
lazarillo The good news is this movie features some gratuitous nudity from the beauteous Italian actress Ornella Muti. The bad news is it features far, far more gratuitous nudity from the not-so-beauteous and quite corpulent French actor Gerard Depardieu. This is another slice of Italo-Gallic insanity from director Marco Ferreti. It somewhat resembles his later, more famous film "Ciao, Monkey", but instead of a baby monkey, Depardieu's character has a chubby human baby. But like the monkey in the later film, the male baby is largely a metaphor for the perpetual narcissistic infantilism of Depardieu's character.Depardieu plays a single father whose feminist wife leaves him alone with their small baby. This doesn't slow down his inveterate womanizing,however, and he soon starts an affair with a young daycare teacher (Muti). It's a little disturbing, especially by modern-day standards, the way Depardieu and Muti engage in naked foreplay pretty much right in front of the baby (although they do have the decency to go into the next room to actually screw). Children that young have little memory, however, so I'm sure the infant actor was much less traumatized by Depardiue's bloated nude body than I was. Anyway, there's a lot of melodrama involving the Depardieu character's continuing compulsive infidelities and his feelings of male irrelevancy in the face of feminism and female sexual liberation. In fact, if the male organ with its insatiable appetites, extreme insecurities, and fickle nature somehow became an actual person it would be just like Depardieu's character in this movie. (So basically, Depardieu here plays a big chubby dick).As other reviewers have said,the end of this movie is quite shocking-- Depardieu is harpooned by Captain Ahab and he drags him, his ship, and his entire crew to the bottom of the ocean. . . Oh wait, that was "Moby Dick". Well, the end of this movie is even more shocking, especially if you're male. Depardieu does give a very good performance, so I certainly would recommend this to his fans. Muti is not as good (but, oh man, is she beautiful), and this film really marks her transition to the kind of daring art films she is best known for (and without which she'd be a forgotten Italian version of Brooke Shields today) And whatever you can say about Marco Ferreti's films, they're definitely NOT dull. This not great, but check it out if it sounds interesting to you.
HumanoidOfFlesh "The Last Woman" is a pessimistic drama from Marco Ferreri,which openly criticizes feminism as the main source of loneliness among men.Gerard Depardieu plays an engineer who is married to Gabrielle.When his wife leaves him for feminist reasons he is left with custody of their nine-month old son.The relationship between Gerard and his son's daycare worker Valerie begins.After seeing how self absorbed and one dimensional Gerard is Valerie threatens to leave him.Gerard responds by cutting off his penis with an electric carving knife."The Last Woman" is a shocking and sexually graphic movie.The world in which we live in is the world in which we are all mere particles,colliding randomly but never connecting.In a perfectly liberal sexual system some people have a varied and exciting erotic life,others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.8 out of 10.
debblyst Gérard (26 year-old G.Depardieu in a star-making, César-nominated performance) is the he-man single father of a little baby boy who meets carefree, sensuous Valérie (ravishingly beautiful 21 year-old Ornella Muti). They feel instantly attracted to each other, she moves in with him on the spot, they fall in love, she fancies playing stepmother to the baby, he gets jealous, she wants freedom, he gets enraged, she no longer fancies constant love-making, he gets desperate, they quarrel and fight, and things disintegrate until the totally shocking finale knocks you OUT!This film was banned mostly everywhere outside Europe, including the US - and you won't find it in VHS or DVD for sale on Amazon, or for rent in your local store. I caught it on Cinemax Cable, late night. It's a step FURTHER than Ferreri's previous "La Grande Bouffe" in shocking power and sexual frankness, and so I've warned you. In this film, Ferreri questions issues like "couple", "love", "sex", "relationship", "family", "woman" and especially "man". He tells a love story exclusively from a macho point of view: the male characters (primitive, childish Depardieu, phony Piccoli, stupid Salvatori) are shamelessly misogynous and speak out their minds with no censorship or civilized "varnish" -- sensibility my a**. Gérard eats, drinks, bites, sucks, spits, burps, shouts, f***s, harasses, fights, you name it - his bodily needs rule. And most of all, Gérard wonders what is the purpose of having a penis in women lib's times. The male organ is very much the center of the film, visually as well as metaphorically, representing men's questionable appendix in a world (Europe in the 70s) where family, marriage and male-female roles were being seriously questioned. In Gérard's character's own words, as he holds his son's penis in his hand: "All we are left with is the right to go around sporting one of these. But now they want to take away our pride in having them - we're not even allowed that anymore! So what are we supposed to do with them now?"Depardieu was soon after to become France's biggest star since Delon/Belmondo. You can really think of no other actor more suitable to portray this childish-gross-larger-than-life he-man than Gérard, with his imposing figure and shameless physicality, total emotional assessment and unbelievable boldness - he's completely naked most of the time, is shown in explicit masturbation and has some 2 or 3 full erections, one of them in close-up, no body double!! (This was way before Viagra, mind you, and before Oshima, Bellocchio, Von Trier, Breillat, Larry Clark etc.). He was very probably the first major Western star to be shown like "that" in a non-porn film. The final scene in which he finally finds a way to "deal" with his manhood is one the most shocking EVER done.Ornella Muti's nude beauty is also largely available here in some daring scenes, though her face is perhaps even sexier than her body - the combination of her catlike, dreamy green eyes, full lips, dark long hair, that lovely gap in her front teeth and the naughty girl-woman expression is very much a promise of liberated but life-changing sex."La Dernière Femme" ("The Last Woman") belongs to Italian director Marco Ferreri's great films, dealing with some of his favorite themes: destruction of male-female stereotypes, flesh/sex/ physiological urges as symbols of life and mortality, physical disability/decay/deformity/mutilation , all of them treated with highly acid sarcasm, a touch of surrealism, another of depression and a lot of dark humor. Ferreri belongs to a very selected group of rebel, risqué and subversively poetic filmmakers, along with Buñuel, Pasolini, Fassbinder, Portuguese João César Monteiro and very few others. A one-of-a-kind, he attracted great European stars who worked for him over and over again (Mastroianni, Tognazzi, Noiret, Piccoli, Salvatori, Depardieu, Girardot, Deneuve, Vlady, Schygulla, Muti, Romy Schneider etc etc) because they knew they would be given offbeat, once-in-a-lifetime roles. Sadly, chances are you won't probably see a copy of "La Dernière Femme" anywhere, unless you look really hard for it. It contains extremely daring scenes, including Depardieu and Ornella having sex in bed with the baby around; nude Depardieu having his nude infant baby explore (I mean, REALLY explore!) Ornella's nude body; and another in which he proudly grabs his baby's willy and points it right at her bemused face. But don't be mislead: beyond the pleasure of shocking his audience, Ferreri firmly shoots us his uncomfortable questions: what is a modern man to do with/without his penis in (post-)feminist times? What the heck do women WANT from men, after all? If you thought "Sex and the CIty" you're galaxies away from "La Dernière Femme".If you are a Ferreri fan and liked "La Grande Bouffe", "The Ape Woman", "The Queen Bee" or "Tales of Ordinary Madness", you should REALLY try to see this one - I guarantee you will NEVER see anything like it!! Not for the prude, humorless, conventional or romantic.