There’s not much one can say to defend that comment, which even absent the latter-day controversy around “Last Tango” was juvenile at best. “Even grief goes better with butter,” Edelstein wrote, alongside an image from the famous, or infamous, scene in Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” in which Marlon Brando’s character uses butter as a lubricant while having anal sex with the character played by Maria Schneider. This happened after he posted (and rapidly deleted) a tasteless joke in response to the recent death of legendary Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci. Until this week he held two of the most prestigious paying gigs in the ever-shrinking world of film criticism, at New York magazine and NPR’s “Fresh Air.” Now he has himself become the subject of widespread debate and discussion on social media, not to mention in the real world.
The third-most-recent post on film critic David Edelstein’s personal Facebook page involves a brief commentary on the recent New York Times opinion piece that posed the question, “ Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook?” The irony: It burns.Įdelstein has been silent on Facebook the last few days.
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