The worst has been the total butchering of Antonioni's 'La Notte', where even moving the controls to their limit cannot produce a decent picture.Daisy Lafarge's capriccio is a beautiful, hilarious, hallucinatory folly. This is only the second DVD that I have watched where the brightness/contrast were so badly mangled in making the transfer that the film is unwatchable until one moves his controls way off their ISF-calibrated positions. version DVD are incompetents, unfortunately. The film is set in Venice in 1940 and the locales are beautiful, while at the same time focusing on a 'native's Venice,' rather than the few over-photographed canals and churches one generally sees.īut the people who did the U.S. Stefania Sandrelli is an absolutely stunning woman, with a gorgeously filled-out body, unlike the skinny-jinnies that many other directors are fond of. Radley Metzger is the only other director I can think of offhand whose sex films invariably have great production values.). (This, I might add, is a rare exception, not the rule, among other sex-film makers. Reviewed by vyto34 7 / 10 Good film, bad DVD transferĪs usual with Brass, this is a very classy sex film, with Hollywood-class production values.

Will innocent Teresa ever discover it, and with it, the way to unlock what quickens the faint, yet willing heart? The faithful diary may be locked away in safety but the precious key is hidden in plain sight. There, in his frank and unrestricted confessions, against all risk of being judged as a vile and corrupt man, Nino would admit all the things that he would never be able to say in person, urging his Goddess Teresa to finally get rid of her painful and revolting modesty. Inevitably, all that remains now, is to let his imagination run wild and confess his boldly intimate and rousing thoughts to his elaborate diary, in the hope that Teresa will soon find it and read it. As the rise of the Italian Fascism makes its visible presence in noble 1940s Venice, Professor Nino Rolfe and his much younger wife, the sumptuous Italian beauty, Teresa, sadly, after twenty years of marriage, witness their enthusiasm wither and the passion wane.

Capriccio Torrent