This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. While "La Chiave",Miranda (1985),L' Uomo Che Guarda (1994) show derisively woman's depravity,and warm it up, with malice and irony,Senso '45 (2002) marks a decline;it tries to depict woman's love,and fails.Brass' shamelessness lost all its charm and became the sheer Prosaism of Senso '45 (2002) (a banal and conventional,tasteless adultery,moreover inverting Brass' opinion about women;this man was libidinous,base, trenchant and lascivious,and turned sentimental and emotional).The only good thing about "Senso" is Mrs. Erika Savastani 's supporting role as "Emilietta" . Many are too preoccupied with the film's sexual content,to may be able to notice the exceptional visual beauty. An ageing professor of art is bothered by his younger wife Teresa's modesty and priggishness. He lays a plan to manipulate her into expressing her sexual side, through the use of diaries purposefully left to be discovered, erotic photography, alcohol and finally a stage-managed affair between Teresa and his daughter's fiancé. Yet setting the workings of desire in motion this way leads to things slipping from the professor's control: his wife becomes increasingly an agent in her own sexual liberation, his fascist daughter schemes for her own ends and finally the professor's own body escapes the control of his mind, leading to spasm, thrombosis and death. Yet the death doesn't seem tragic, as it frees both the professor from the evils of history which are about to be spectacularly unleashed (and this is a man who has been helping the Jews of Venice) and his wife from her socially imposed role of modest matron and submissive object. The Key is based on Kagi by Tanizaki Junichiro. The book had been previously adapted to film by Kon Ichikawa in Odd Obsession. [4] Brass' film relocates the story to Mussolini's time and changes the setting to Venice. [4] Cast [ edit ]

The film's visual style is also worth noting, with its lush and dreamy cinematography capturing the beauty and decay of Venice's canals and crumbling buildings. The period costumes and set design are also meticulously crafted and add to the film's sense of time and place. After his wife's death, Brass began a relationship with lawyer Caterina Varzi (b. 1961) who starred in his 2009 short film Hotel Courbet. They married in 2017. [15] Arrow (Blu-Ray & DVD) (UK RB/R2 HD/PAL) / WS (1.78:1) (16:9), Cult Epics (US R0 NTSC), Raro (Italy R0 PAL) / WS (1.66:1) (16:9)Tinto Brass candidato con i Radicali". La Stampa (in Italian). 22 January 2010 . Retrieved 25 August 2011. The plot of The Key is dervied from the novel Kagi by Jun'ichirô Tanizaki, which has been adapted numerous times including 1959's Odd Obsession by Kon Ichikawa and another little seen version made the same year in '83 by Akitaka Kimata. The original 1956 novel was written in diary form between the husband and wife, with a sexual frankness that made it one of the more controversial works for the author (who also wrote the often-filmed Manji). Oh, let’s count the ways, starting with provocateur, auteur, ass-obsessed, movie director, subversive, sleazy, uncompromising, golden, offensive, vital, brilliant, gutsy, and most importantly, artistic.

L'urlo was shown in competition at Berlin Film Festival 1970. [8] La Vacanza, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero won the prize of the film critics for the best Italian film at 1971 Venice Film Festival. [9] [ unreliable source?] In 1972, Brass was a member of the jury at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. [10] Erotic cinema [ edit ] There is a particular density of the naked flesh,and of the settings also.Brass displays much gusto;his style's plastic quality is extraordinary ."La Chiave" is written by Brass more like a chapter of ethology,and of sexual behaviors. La Chiave" is one in a series of medallions of beautiful women,astounding studies of women,on a par with Miranda (1985),Andrea Barzini's Desiderando Giulia (1985),Andrea Bianchi's Dolce Pelle Di Angela (1987),Spiando Marina (1992),L'Uomo Che Guarda (1994),Malèna (2000) ,etc..In the unconventional erotica,Brass' equals are the far less famous Andrea Barzini (the author of the best Serena Grandi show,made when she was 27 years),Andrea Bianchi,the author of the underrated Dolce Pelle Di Angela (1987).These masterpieces,signed by Bianchi and Barzini,and other wonderful Deborah Caprioglio and Serena Grandi shows could be seen in Romanian movie theaters 13 years ago. As he delves deeper into her past, Nino comes to learn about Teresa's many affairs and begins to question his own virility and masculinity. In a desperate attempt to regain his confidence and prove his worth to Teresa, Nino embarks on an affair of his own with the young and voluptuous Fosca. Almost every country got to see this film before America, who came very late to the game after gray market copies were traded around for years. The film was officially released on DVD in virtually identical transfers in both the US and UK in the early 2000s, letterboxed at 1.66:1. For some reason both DVDs claimed to be 16:9 enhanced, but neither actually were. The US Cult Epics transfer incorporated about 12 minutes of Italian dialogue which was trimmed from English prints, and a remastered anamorphic version was eventually released as part of the label's discontinued Tinto Brass Collection box set. The Cult Epics disc also contains a hefty 17-minute video interview with Brass, a photo gallery, filmographies for Brass and Sandrelli, and the original European trailers for this film, Miranda, and All Ladies Do It, the last of which is mostly a very funny conversation between Brass and his leading lady.Films in Review: Article about Nerosubianco, and about the retrospective". Archived from the original on 29 August 2014 . Retrieved 29 August 2014.