★ 6 / 10
**This is where the Brass style was born**
Martin Oaks
**This is where the Brass style was born** Miranda is an attractive widow who runs an inn on the Po River plain during the 1950s. Following the recent loss of…
**This is where the Brass style was born**
Miranda is an attractive widow who runs an inn on the Po River plain during the 1950s. Following the recent loss of her husband in the war, she decides not to formally commit to any man, but resolves to fully embrace her sexuality. During each of the four seasons, Miranda has relationships with four men who represent different paradigms: the loyal, young innkeeper, a wealthy, mature diplomat, a young truck driver, and an energetic ex-boxer. Each will attempt to win her over in his own way, while she continues to independently and calculatingly assess which of them best suits her desires for freedom, pleasure, and financial stability.
Tinto Brass breaks with what could have been presented as a dark postwar drama, instead portraying sexuality through hedonism, lightheartedness, and lighthearted comedy. "Miranda" is, therefore, a film very much in the style of Tinto Brass, full of vivid colors, voluptuous photography and those fetish shots focused on the dangerous curves of the magnetic Serena Grandi, who shines with an imposing physical presence and a sensational narrative charisma.
The Assman Cometh
hawley griffin
Ah, the mature Tinto Brass! After twenty odd years of trying to make difficult, compelling and erotic films, of seeing his work cut to shreds by clumsier, less…
Ah, the mature Tinto Brass! After twenty odd years of trying to make difficult, compelling and erotic films, of seeing his work cut to shreds by clumsier, less artistic hands, of working on huge sets with vast unweildy international casts and of the insufferable dictation of linear narrative and intelligible dialogue enough was enough. From now on it would be back to basics, back to his first love. From now on all of his films would be about women with fat arses. Like Walerian Boroczyk or Russ Meyer ( albeit a Russ Meyer who is a foot shorter and facing the wrong way ) Brass' chief concern is the capture of the female form, as often as possible and from suprisingly intrusive angles. To this end he has established a series of erotic props, his own sexual shorthand. There will always be an oval mirror over any bed, there will invariably be a camp dancing sequence during which the heroine will feel compelled to flash her baggy french knickers. There will be a dream sequence, usually on a beach and usually as a tribute to Fellini, and every time a character goes to the cinema it will be to see another Tinto Brass film. And finally, and perhaps most importantly for Tinto, any woman, no matter what the circumstances and appropos of nothing must be allowed to urinate as and when she pleases, preferably backlit and preferably in public. This is the plot of Miranda. Not in essence, this is not a thumbnail sketch or a five word pitch. THIS IS ALL THAT HAPPENS:Miranda ( Serena Grandi ) the landlady of an Italian taverna has to choose between three men: a rich pensioner, an aggressive GI or the lowly waiter who carries a torch for her. Guess which one she goes for!
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Kindly release the 4K Blu-ray result of this movie.