Notorious for the explicit scenes between Brando’s Paul, a world-weary American widower, and Schneider’s vivacious young Parisian Jeanne as they fell into an intense affair after meeting while viewing an apartment, only Schneider was required to appear nude. The film’s explicitness prompted protests and legal action from Christian groups in the United Kingdom and in Italy the producer, director and leading actors were given two-month suspended prison sentences in absentia.
