Tinto Brass - Senso '45 (2002)

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Publicado em 24/03/2012 por AriaFrittaFlo

Il film si ispira a una novella di Camillo Boito, già adattata in passato da Luchino Visconti nel film Senso. Brass ambienta la novella durante gli ultimi anni del fascismo.

Livia Mazzoni, moglie di un alto dirigente del Minculpop, parte sull'automobile del suo spasimante, l'avvocato Ugo Oggiano, da Asolo verso Venezia, dove si incontrerà con il suo amante Helmut Schultz, membro delle SS dell'esercito tedesco. Durante il viaggio Livia ripercorre la deriva sessuale che l'ha portata sino a quel punto, travolgendola in un turbinio di avventure erotiche, traffici illeciti, personaggi loschi che si muovono in un regime in sfacelo e in un clima di guerra. Ma all'arrivo a Venezia l'attende un'amara resa dei conti.

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Trapped in an unhappy marriage, the wife of a high ranking Fascist official starts a dangerous, self-destructive relationship with a duplicitous S.S. Officer.

March 1945 Asolo, Italy. Livia Mazzion, the attractive wife of a top ministry official, slips into the car of lawyer Ugo Oggiano, Livia's admirer and her husband's informer. Livia must reach Venice and her lover Helmut Schultz, a Wermacht lieutenant, as beautiful and accursed as a pagan god, with whom she is having a burning love affair. During the trip she relives the high points of her devastating sexual abandonment gone adrift, one that has shattered her life and her destiny, swallowing her up in the ruinous vortex of a sybaritic and bituminous Venice. The city, in the throes of the final months of the war, is rife with traffickers, officials, nabobs, military brass, sharks and adventurers of every kind. Yet a surprise awaits Livia upon her arrival in Venice, a surprise in which the heroes' own personal defeats interweave with those public, as historical and political events now seek to settle accounts. Written by Ørmås  

Giovanni Brass (born 26 March 1933), better known as Tinto Brass, is an Italian filmmaker. He is noted especially for his work in the erotic genre, with films such as Caligula, Così fan tutte (released under theEnglish title All Ladies Do It), Paprika, Monella (Frivolous Lola) and Trasgredire. On Sunday, 18 April 2010, he suffered an intracranial hemorrhage

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Tinto Brass remade the story as Senso '45 (retitled Black Angel for the international release) in 2002 when he read the novella and found himself unsatisfied with Visconti's version. The film starred Anna Galiena as Livia andGabriel Garko as her lover. The story of the film is much more faithful to Camillo Boito's work than the earlier adaptation in terms of tone and story, but the action was transported from the War of Unification to the end of World War II, with Remigio becoming a Nazi Lieutenant and Livia updated to being the wife of a high ranking Fascistofficial. Brass later explained that the change in time was made because he couldn't possibly bring himself to compete with Visconti's vision of Risorgimento-era Italy.

Unlike the 1954 version, Senso '45 did not romanticize the affair between Livia and Mahler (Helmut Schultz in the 2002 film), the film showed it as a clinical study of vanity and lust. The film went on to win Italian cinema's "Silver Ribbon" Award for best costume design. (Wikipedia)

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