directed by Tinto Brass
Italy 1980
Bruno
Martel (Luc Merenda) is an unstable French actor whose
agent gets him an audition for a pornographic film by a
pretentious director. Bruno "saves" his co-star Doris
(Susanna Javicoli) who is obsessed with playing the role
of Hamlet's Ophelia. After an attack by a female punk
gang and a stay in an asylum where the staff is crazier
than the inmates, they take to the road with a man who
believes he is Garibaldi and encounters more bizarre
characters before the pair end up working at an out of
the way gas station for a wheelchair bound old man and
his horny young wife (a nod to
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS
TWICE - or more appropriately, Luchino Visconti's
OSSESSIONE). |
Theatrical Release: 4 January 1980
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DVD Review: Ripley's Home Video - Region 2 - PAL
Big thanks to Eric Cotenas for the Review!
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Runtime | 1:56:20 (4% PAL speedup) | |
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1.70:1 Original Aspect Ratio
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Audio | Italian (Dolby Digital 5.1); Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono) | |
Subtitles | Italian, English, none | |
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Release Information: Studio: Ripley's Home Video Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 20 |
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Although the DVD cover does not mention English subtitles, they are present and selectable from the setup menu (the director's interview, however, does not have subtitles). Shot in 16mm and blown up to 35mm (the source for the restoration was a 35mm interpositive) and probably looks as good as it can without manipulation.
The audio is at times badly out of sync on both the mono and 5.1 tracks but that may be an issue with the original post-synchronization. The photo gallery actually features behind the scenes photographs and production stills by Brass regular Gianfranco Salis rather than the expected frame grabs. |
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