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5.4/10
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After an SS officer wiretaps a brothel and replaces its prostitutes with spies to obtain blackmail on the clientele, the Madam and a vengeful new girl seek to bring about his downfall.After an SS officer wiretaps a brothel and replaces its prostitutes with spies to obtain blackmail on the clientele, the Madam and a vengeful new girl seek to bring about his downfall.After an SS officer wiretaps a brothel and replaces its prostitutes with spies to obtain blackmail on the clientele, the Madam and a vengeful new girl seek to bring about his downfall.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsThe feet of the dead prostitute in the lecture scene are pointing in opposite directions between shots without being moved.
- Quotes
Helmut Wallenberg: What frightens you, what you see or what you don't?
- Alternate versionsIn the UK, the BBFC rated the movie X, after imposing cuts to reduce close-up shots of female genitals as well as to edit a scene where a man probes a woman with a penis-shaped loaf of bread and shots of a man throwing phallic-shaped darts at a woman's pubis painted as a target. The BBFC rated the movie 18 for strong sex and nudity, on March 4, 1993, for the Redemption Films VHS edition (later also in DVD) with the running time of 112m. Yet, the BBFC kept 18 rating in November 23, 2004, for the Argent Films fully uncut DVD edition.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Inside Salon Kitty (2003)
Featured review
Sometimes when a film relaxes and you relax into it, you can really feel that you are touching the filmmaker. That he is slightly drunk and comfortable and you are experiencing him (or her).
That's one place you want to be in your life in films, and it is the basis for many of the film experiences I rate as "must have."
But it has all sorts of dangers. The filmmaker must be more than skilled enough to connect, he must be actually interesting, worthwhile, engaged in life in ways that impregnate. There are few films that are well enough sculpted to be entered. And of those, there are few that reward your investing wet parts of your soul to it. You know who the good ones are.
Even then, often you'll get what you have here, equal parts of fine wine and flat cola. I suppose it is impossible to be otherwise with Nazi-centered soft porn, but Jess Franco (when not drunk) can do pretty well.
The good here is that once in a while, you'll encounter some staging with some stark, clear composition and elements that are every bit in the class with Lang or Greenaway. These have ordinary camera positions: non-human in character but human in position. Its the creation of a staged imagination, of dramatic nuance not placed in the actor but in the cinematic frame. (The actors aren't bad, by the way; its just that the weight of the thing isn't on their shoulders or other body parts.)
Some day, commentors like me will be able to provide bookmarks to these scenes so you can experience them without wading through the rotted soup in between. Oh, and that is a ghastly experience, a walk in the dark through greasy fog from one brilliant view through a window to the next.
Hey, there's a story, but never mind. Its as irrelevant, stupid and disposable as its sisters, like "Schindler's List," which this resembles in a few ways. And there's some nudity, though in most cases one wonders why. The chief actress is pretty and very German, different from Brasses usual big-bottomed Italian tigresses.
I'd really like you to see some of the good stuff here. But like much of Bertolucci, you would curse me for sending you there.
Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
That's one place you want to be in your life in films, and it is the basis for many of the film experiences I rate as "must have."
But it has all sorts of dangers. The filmmaker must be more than skilled enough to connect, he must be actually interesting, worthwhile, engaged in life in ways that impregnate. There are few films that are well enough sculpted to be entered. And of those, there are few that reward your investing wet parts of your soul to it. You know who the good ones are.
Even then, often you'll get what you have here, equal parts of fine wine and flat cola. I suppose it is impossible to be otherwise with Nazi-centered soft porn, but Jess Franco (when not drunk) can do pretty well.
The good here is that once in a while, you'll encounter some staging with some stark, clear composition and elements that are every bit in the class with Lang or Greenaway. These have ordinary camera positions: non-human in character but human in position. Its the creation of a staged imagination, of dramatic nuance not placed in the actor but in the cinematic frame. (The actors aren't bad, by the way; its just that the weight of the thing isn't on their shoulders or other body parts.)
Some day, commentors like me will be able to provide bookmarks to these scenes so you can experience them without wading through the rotted soup in between. Oh, and that is a ghastly experience, a walk in the dark through greasy fog from one brilliant view through a window to the next.
Hey, there's a story, but never mind. Its as irrelevant, stupid and disposable as its sisters, like "Schindler's List," which this resembles in a few ways. And there's some nudity, though in most cases one wonders why. The chief actress is pretty and very German, different from Brasses usual big-bottomed Italian tigresses.
I'd really like you to see some of the good stuff here. But like much of Bertolucci, you would curse me for sending you there.
Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
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- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Salon Kitty
- Filming locations
- Dear Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy(Studio)
- Production companies
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- Runtime2 hours 9 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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