Verdict
Summary
Brass’s style is simplistic but artful, and while the script is for the birds, the banquet he serves is juicy.
Plot:
A philandering wife spices up her sex life with her husband by being unfaithful.
Review:
Beautiful and carefree Diana (Claudia Koll) spends her days working at a lingerie boutique that might as well be a whorehouse with its revolving door of creeps and lecherous old men who come in to molest the employees, but Diana doesn’t mind, and she comes home to her jealous nebbish businessman husband (Paulo Lanza) who frets and worries all day and night that Diana is cheating on him. Granted, she is, but she tells him the truth, which he refuses to believe because her infidelities are so outlandish and crazy that he simply can’t believe they’re true. Even when they go out together for a night on the town, she’s accosted and all but raped in the bathroom by horny guys, namely a fetishist who takes one look at her and makes it his mission to hound her until she gives up the fight and lets him sodomize her. The experience of nearly being sodomized by this stranger totally turns Diana on, and her husband is also turned on that her loosey goosey sexual attitude seems to turn everyone else on, and so it’s a win-win. But as the days and weeks go on, Diana’s sexual magnetism becomes irresistible for strangers all over the place, and she’s molested on the public transportation to and from work, and she even meets up with a cousin whom she lost her virginity to, and Diana snowballs into a free-for-all sexual revolution of her own making. She meets the anal sexual fetishist again, and she experiences an orgasm from anal sex with him, and it completely throws her relationship with her husband for a loop, as he has finally accepted that she’s made a cuckold of him. But will this be the end of their relationship … or the beginning of their next chapter of marriage?
From butt-focused erotic filmmaker Tinto Brass, the slickly produced All Ladies Do It is European soft-core erotica done on a scale few filmmakers have ever attempted. It teeters on hardcore pornography while maintaining a playful sense of frivolity that is totally fictional and insane, considering that the lead character is molested, raped, assaulted, and treated like a sex doll by maybe a dozen different men (most of them complete strangers), but it never seems to bother her in the slightest. This is basically a pornographic comic book come to life in vivid color, and if you’re a fan of Milo Manara or Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri’s artwork and erotic stories, then this is a movie for you. Brass’s style is simplistic but artful, and while the script is for the birds, the banquet he serves is juicy.
Cult Epics has just reissued All Ladies Do It onto sparkling 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray in a two-disc package, and the movi has likely never looked or sounded better before. Special features are aplenty.
Bonus Materials
- 4K UHD BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
- New 4K Transfer (from the original negative) & Restoration with HDR
- New DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo English & Italian
- New Audio Commentary by Eugenio Ercolani & Troy Howarth
- Theatrical Trailers
- BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
- New 4K Transfer (from the original negative) & Restoration
- New DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo English & Italian
- New Audio Commentary by Eugenio Ercolani & Troy Howarth
- Theatrical Trailers
- Interview with director Tinto Brass (2001)
- Outtakes All Ladies Do It
- PHoto Gallery
- Double-sided sleeve with original uncensored Italian poster art
- 20-Page illustrated booklet with liner notes by Eugenio Ercolani and Domenico Monetti
- Slipcase
- 4K UHD first pressing Exclusive: 4x Repro Italian Lobby Card prints
