The Tinto Brass Collection
by Tinto Brass
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Actor: Claudia Koll, Franco Branciaroli, Isabella Deiana, Ornella Marcucci, Paolo LanzaDirector: Tinto Brass
Writer: Tinto Brass
Producer: Achille Manzotti
Writer: Bernardino Zapponi
Writer: Carlo Goldoni
Writer: Francesco Costa
Writer: Junichirô Tanizaki
Writer: Ted Rusoff
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Italian (Dubbed)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 294 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-31
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Cult Epics
Movie Reviews of The Tinto Brass Collection
Movie Review: SOME UNABASHEDLY VISUAL BLISS FROM ITALY
Summary: 5 Stars
If you think that the female posterior goes underappreciated these days, then hurry up and enter the colorful and delightfully voyeuristic world of Tinto Brass, which is firmly ruled by the well-rounded derrieres of voluptuous Mediterranean earth maidens; unconventionally intelligent women all. No plastic skeleton dancers from Hollywood here.
THE KEY; MIRANDA; and ALL WOMEN DO IT; are the offerings in this wonderful set. All three films are sensually engrossing and invigorating to the highest degree, boasting commendable production values and masterful cinematography throughout. Especially, MIRANDA, my favorite among them, should prove to be the most potent tonic for our vital senses in this totally restored (and emphatically uncensored), pictorially perfect DVD release. What could be more fabulously joy inspiring than watching Miranda and the other free-spirited enchantresses get dressed and enticingly undressed again while the developments unfold in these high voltage melodramas?! That is a feast for the eyes, positively so!
The key that stimulates intimate encounters; Miranda's amatory restlessness; and a wife's amorous exploits make up the stories in the collection.
Watching these films will energize the shy peekaboo impulses in even the most seasoned couch potato. Tinto Brass has the men always marching at some eye-appealing distance behind the ladies. That way, the central themes in these films remain sensual and profoundly visual, rather than becoming philosophically profound. Don't be alarmed, Brass is no Antonioni. But still, one occasionally wonders if Stanley Kubrick's EYES WIDE SHUT actually borrowed a few thematic ideas from THE KEY.
Tinto Brass gives us strong-willed, erotically-charged, intensely adventurous and whimsically appealing female characters, who, with calculating wisdom and much humor (sometimes genuine kindness even) proceed to mesmerize the hopelessly fetish-driven men around them. Without the slightest doubt, here the women carry most of the intelligence on their shoulders. All this is such fun to study; in clean, crisp color to boot.
Finally, it might be of minor interest to note that I saw two of these films (THE KEY and MIRANDA) a bit more than a decade ago in Kassel, Germany, at the Erotic Film Festival there. It was on a bitterly cold, stormy February evening. The movie audience was audibly very appreciative of the colorful scenery and the frivolous activities on the screen, while the wind was howling outside.These movies seemed to radiate a needed warmth against the cold at that time in Germany. However, while watching the same films again in my own living room not so long ago (more than 10 years later), in the midst of a tremendous heat wave that had unexpectedly hit the Midwest, I still enjoyed the films. Of course, they did not help to lower the temperature at all. But they did make one aware of life's many perverse little ironies.
As a whole, this package of playfully down-to-earth visual entertainment should make us all end up happy.
Here are 4 stars for the set; and, definitely, an additional bright star to honor MIRANDA's beautifully restored glory. Anything less than that would surely be unkind to our basic instincts.
Please note:
My review is based on the newer (August 31, 2004) release of THE TINTO BRASS COLLECTION boxed set. There is also an earlier set of the same 3 films (released June 17, 2003). The box cover art for both sets is identical. However, MIRANDA's restoration is much less impressive in the earlier (2003) box. So, if you want to own a better looking MIRANDA, avoid the earlier (2003) package.
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