Verdict
Summary
The women are stupendously gorgeous, and there are lots of them, and Mr. Brass himself makes no bones about his intentions with the film. By casting himself, there is no doubt whatsoever about the fact that he wore his crown proudly as the auteur of classy smut.
Plot:
A filmmaker of erotic films in Italy receives fan letters from women, which he reads and enjoys … and imagines might inspire his next film.
Review:
Tinto Brass (played by himself) sits in his office in Italy, chomping on long cigars and getting an eyeful of his lovely and shapely new office assistant Lucia (played by Cinzia Roccaforte), who over the curse of two days hits up the post office to pick up his mail and hands him stacks of fan mail … all of which seem to be written by women. Amused, Brass has her read aloud the letters, and we see a reenactment of each letter as if this were (and indeed it is) an anthology film, with the wraparound segment being that Mr. Brass gets to get his mitts on Ms. Lucia and drop his pants to reveal his elephantine member that rises to the occasion to make Ms. Lucia squirm! Each segment (there are eight) is a mostly comical and lighthearted approach to sex, sharing spouses or partners with strangers or friends, voyeurism, and sexual healing by way of experimentation. Brass, a true lover of a women’s rears, serves up a banquet of carnal gratification as if he were the chef whose recipes all but invented the dish everyone has tried to copy.
A companion piece to his oeuvre, P.O. Box Tinto Brass doesn’t have a story so much as it has a purpose, which is solely to be enjoyed for its overt and playful eroticism. There’s not really any foreplay; it’s all flesh and business. It’s as close to hardcore pornography as a movie can get, and yet it shows restraint if only to leave a little left to the imagination, but not much. The women are stupendously gorgeous, and there are lots of them, and Mr. Brass himself makes no bones about his intentions with the film. By casting himself, there is no doubt whatsoever about the fact that he wore his crown proudly as the auteur of classy smut.
Cult Epics continues to release top quality discs, continuing their line of Brass films, and their release of the 4K Ultra HD / Blu-ray of P.O. Box Tinto Brass shines bright. I listened to portions of the audio commentary that has a slew of film historians on it (they take turns to talk about each segment), and they’ve also included a thick booklet, a stills gallery, and more.
Bonus Materials
• 4K UHD BLU RAY
• 4K Transfer (from the original negative) & Restoration + HDR
• New Audio Commentary by Troy Howarth, Jeremy Richey, Nathaniel Thompson, Eugenio Ercolani & Heather Drain
• Trailer
• BLU-RAY
• 4K Transfer (from the original negative) & Restoration
• New Audio Commentary by Troy Howarth, Jeremy Richey, Nathaniel Thompson, Eugenio Ercolani & Heather Drain
• Interview with Tinto Brass (1995)
• Poster & Photo Gallery
• Trailer
• Optional Italian & English language tracks
• New improved English subtitles
• INCLUDES
• Slipcase
• Reversible Sleeve w/original Italian poster art
• 20-Page illustrated Booklet w/Essay by Eugenio Ercolani
