Have you already seen FALLO? The women look great. Virginia, especially, is of an overtly plumper shape, slightly unusual even for Brass' world.
Brass' humor is always decadent, coarse, mean, offensive, grotesque and violent and, therefore, also abstract. He might not be the greatest—yet he certainly is the most interesting and intriguing and naughty director. His stance is to take the lowest and surely meanest and most degrading view of most everything human; at this, he's far better than the artistic impostor Pasolini. This trend of * comes from the cinematographic respectability—Fellini (--e.g., the * of plump divas--), Visconti, Cavani (--Antonioni filmed prettier stuff than these, but in an entirely other climate--); Bertolucci comes from the same sex—saturated atmosphere. Brass varied his approach, and took a coarser and plainer way in his last movies (--when it's not over—sentimentality--). His * has long been a theme of my writing.
His is some erotica that will survive. The soft—* exists for directors like him; he doesn't, of course, 'express himself', because he has basically nothing to 'express'. Instead, he ceaselessly draws his porno vignettes, with enviable gusto and instinct. Brass is our guide to sex—guided lust.
Of interest in FALLO are exclusively the hefty sex scenes.
Brass does several _plein air studies of the physiology of *—as in Raffaella Ponzo's scenes with her unlikable partner (this is an Italian specialty—sex in the countryside, orgasms in charming landscapes--); and several chamber studies—as in Frederica Palmer's funny bed scene, and office studies—see Federica Tommasi's scene. The battery of highly desirable babes counts Virginia Barrett, Raffaella Ponzo, Sara Cosmi, Federica Tommasi (--a porno star, go watch her double penetration in a porno short--), Silvia Rossi, Federica Palmer (--a nice _hottie--). The foxy Sara Cosmi's number reminds of the sheltered bourgeois effects used in LA CHIAVE; her naked ass in that discreet bluish light
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So FALLO is essential Brass; disbelieve the disappointed
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There are, in FALLO, several great scenes with Raffaella and Virginia—some feminine genitalia's vigorous handling, and the like, plus the delights of masochism and anal sex. The Nazi themes and German accents are there.