Paprika (1991)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Tinto Brass

Writers:

Tinto Brass (writer)
Bernardino Zapponi (writer)

Release Date:

13 luty 1991 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. "Paprika" is the name given to her by the madam. |

Plot Keywords:

Brothel | Female Nudity | Lesbian Scene | Golden Shower | Lesbianism

Cast

Deborah Caprioglio	...	Paprika
Stéphane Ferrara	...	Rocco
Martine Brochard	...	Madame Collette
Stéphane Bonnet	...	Franco
Rossana Gavinel	...	Gina
Renzo Rinaldi	...	Conte Bastiano
Nina Soldano	...	Giornalista
Clara Algranti	...	Sciura Angelina
Luciana Cirenei	...	Donna Olimpia
John Steiner	...	Principe Ascanio
Valentine Demy	...	Beba
Luigi Laezza	...	Nino
Riccardo Garrone	...	Zio
Paul Muller	...	Milvio
Clarita Gatto

Also Known As:

Paprika, Life in a Brothel

Runtime:

Argentina:99 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Telecolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Certification:

Germany:16 (heavily cut) | West Germany:18 (cut) | UK:18 | New Zealand:R18 | Argentina:18 | Finland:K-18 | Norway:18 (video premiere) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Trieste, Friuli - Venezia Giulia, Italy

Movie Connections:

Version of Paprika (1995)

Performing

Tinto Brass has made some things worth watching in my mind. He chooses to make erotic films, which is fine by me.

I'm interested in erotic films. Naturally, they are enjoyable, the good ones that avoid the damages associated with porn. But they are something deep in us too, something having to do with performance.

In a real erotic film, you'll have an actress (at the very least an actress) who is performing as a character who is performing for us. In porn, there is no difference; in erotic art, there is. Tinto in his better works understands this, and plays with it — sometimes — in effective ways.

This film is worse in the way it works, and is better in how the story bends to the purpose. The story is about another layer of performing. Our heroine not only performs for our pleasure, but for also (as a prostitute) for a seemingly endless series of men.

So the setup is fine.

Making something that is erotic requires that the artist in charge decide what is erotic. Now that's a matter purely of style and not art. The choices he's made this time are different than the ones he's known for, though they seem superficially similar. But this woman is genuinely fat, thickwaisted. She has bad teeth and (the only thing that really matters) she carries herself gracelessly.

You'll want to pass on this one, I think.

Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.