Last Tango in Paris (film review)

One of the last scenes in the film takes place in a dance hall where a tango contest is in progress. Paul and Jeanne sit down and order whiskey. Jeanne complains that the place is "disgusting", this, despite the fact that she has just spent 3 days in a old, dank, rat-infested apartment with Paul and the dance hall itself is quite ornate, clean, and beautiful.

Having just watched another Bertolucci film 3 times (The Conformist, 1970), I was quick to pick up on many similiarities between the 2 films, both in cinematography and theme, as well as in the representation of tango. In The Conformist , a sort of tango is danced by the two female leads in a dance hall. Both are tall, thin, utterly beautiful, and dressed in slinky, satin evening gowns. The begin their tango with a particular move (who's name I do not know, if it has one), where
one woman is down on bended knee with arm raised over head. The other woman takes this raised hand and is led around the kneeling dancer, in a circular promenade of sorts.
This same ostentatious display is performed by the kneeling Marlon Brando, as he leads the lady around his periphery (see 1st image below).

Another film critic had this thought to share online:
"The camera's movement throughout this scene is deft as well as graceful. We first saw it come down toward Brando's character from the top. It curved subtly and expertly, but its movement was quick--even aggressive. These qualities characterize the movements of the tango, which you will see the two main characters perform at the end of the film. The dance is a powerful scene, because it finally iterates what has been suggested all along in the film's choreography--both in the movements of the camera and of the characters. We feel swept away by the beauty of the tango despite the tragic quality of the events it accompanies." [from: http://www.ibiblio.org/stabley/lt1.html]