Disturbing yet enthralling

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

All of the reviews so far have missed the mark on this one. The funniest comment is that Depardieu is "corpulent." He doesn't have a six-pack, by any means, but he is not at all corpulent. Even in his later years, he has been, at most, a little chunky. What intrigues me most of all is that none of the reviews mention the creepy fact that a number of sex scenes in this film have a toddler in the middle of them, and that Gerard Depardieu, in a few scenes, spends an inappropriate time exploring said toddler's boy parts. I get that it's supposed to be a comment on some vague Freudian male penis obsession, but it doesn't have to be creepy like that to make such a point (whatever point that is; it's never made clear). It stops just this side of getting the baby involved in the sex, but goes as far as having a swinger fondling party while the baby watches and to have the baby naked on the bed between Depardieu and Muti carrying out some obvious foreplay, to name a couple of disturbing examples. No wonder this one is hard to find.

"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.

This movie (maybe more so than Le Futur Est Femme) immortalizes the young Ornella Muti as the ultimate dream woman... as far as sultry ravenous brunettes go anyhow!!! Mayhaps because there is no competition here for her (Carole Perle? Nice name but...) unlike in Le Futur... where Ornella is actually loved by co-star Hanna Schygulla... Here the same is true, as her co-star here also loves her and may in fact love her too much... However, unlike Hanna, Gérard Depardieu fights the attraction to the utmost degree... (And THAT is the true reason why this film was banned by the U.S. censors - the way G.D. goes about to finally purge his desires for her is quite... unbelievable to say the least!)The mature Ornella Muti is now even better in my estimation... But for a wider audience of woman-lovers, this young Venus-like Ornella is the one and only. She was, in the ten years that followed, constantly in the top ten of the most beautiful women in the world... Too bad her acting talent wasn't up to par...I will respectfully disagree with the other three here -so far- and state my belief that Marco Ferreri is *not* on the same level as Fassbinder or Bunuel. But he and João César Monteiro are certainly "the next two" I'd say!Note also the presence of one Michel Piccoli in this one - he who despite being ''just a guy'', balding, not all that fit, not that great an actor himself, managed to co-star often with some of the most beautiful leading ladies in Europe - Romy Schneider, Catherine Deneuve (of course - une compatriote...!), Dany Robin (une autre compatriote!), Sabine Azéma (et une autre!), Martine Carol (et encore une autre!), Ornella here... Proof that it is good to be at the right place, at the right time...And to the eight who find this "not useful" - a review would be useful.A comment is just a comment. Ferreri fans...

I am a Marco Ferreri fun, this superlative movie has Ornella Muti still young - she became my number 1 for years. I saw it in 1977. I must see this film again with more 23 years on my eyes. Recently I saw "L'Inconnu the Strasbourg" and I felt in love with the new "charm" of Ornella Muti as a mature woman and I cried of happiness. I hope to see her again soon.