Bernardo Bertolucci's first opus since 1995's Stealing Beauty returns to the same territory as Last Tango In Paris. Like the Brando 'n' butter piece, Besieged focuses almost exclusively on its two central protagonists: Shandurai (Thandie Newton), a beautiful young African woman studying to be a doctor; and Kinsky (David Thewlis), an eccentric English musician living in Rome. Also like Tango, it involves two enigmatic strangers embarking on a complex and obsessional game of attraction and rejection. But here the similarities end.
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