Yet, Brass has decided to focus on erotica from then on as a way of rebelling against the hypocrisy of censors. When the movie came out, the public was shocked and the critics described it as “sickening, utterly worthless, shameful trash”. Guccione has botched the film and added hardcore sex scenes, which led to Brass removing his name from the credits. After refusing to include footage of Penthouse centerfolds shoots, he was fired and locked out of the editing room. The success of this film brought another commission, this time from the Penthouse founder Bob Guccione to do a movie adaptation of Gore Vidal’s novel Caligula. In 1976, he was commissioned to direct a sexploitation quickie Salon Kitty, but he has re-written the script to turn it into a dark, political satire. He was also Paramount Picture’s first choice for directing A Clockwork Orange, but he refused the offer since he was shooting his film The Howls at the time. This early period includes films such as Who Works Is Lost (Chi lavora è perduto) from 1968, Dropout from 1970, short films Tempo Libero and Tempo Lavorativo commissioned by Umberto Eco for the 13th Triennale di Milano, and La Vacanza with Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero that won the prize of the film critics for the best Italian film at 1971 Venice Film Festival.

Even though his early work includes many critically acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres, he is today mainly known for his later work in the realm of erotica.Ĭonsidered a promising avant-garde director in the 1960s and 70s who employed highly experimental editing- and camera- style, this early period was referred as rebellious, anarchistic and experimental and he has been called the “Antonioni of the 70s”. Within this context, Tinto Brass movies of the time have made him the cultured representative of 1970s Italian erotic cinema. This has brought a significant shift in the way sex and nudity were portrayed on the big screen. This culminated in the 1960s and 1970s when the sexual liberation unleashed all the confinement previously placed on the women’s sexual pleasure. Throughout the 20th century, sexuality has moved closer to the center of public debate than ever before.

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