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Nerosubianco (1969)

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Nerosubianco (1969)

Nerosubianco / Attraction (1969)
Cult Epics DVD5 (VIDEO_TS) | English (dubbed) | NTSC 16:9 (720 x 480) | AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | 01:20:03 | 4,39 Gb
Genre: Drama | Italy

Director: Tinto Brass
Stars: Anita Sanders, Terry Carter and Nino Segurini

Only the most foolhardy of mortals would attempt a plot summary of this film, and I’m not quite that crazy. This is Tinto Brass’s 1969 effort, coming between 1967′s Deadly Sweet and 1970′s The Howl. The former is a mad, pop-culture collage of noir elements, while the latter is a hallucinatory picaresque. This one is the most plot-free of the the lot. The original title is Nerosubianco, an untranslatable pun that combines “black on white” with the word “eros” (Attraction – note the word contains “action” – is an honorable attempt, and better than the theatrical title of “The Artful Penetration of Barbara,” which is what appears on the screen here, with the new name showing up as a subtitle), and that’s about as much as can be summarized: this is an interracial romance. Beyond that, we have an exercise in pure formalism, an eye-popping collection of images and incidents as abstract as they are psychedelic.

Plot: What plot? Tinto Brass, well-known director of Eurotica (including the infamous Caligula) began his career as an “underground” filmmaker, which back in the ’60s meant ripping off Jean-Luc Godard and Andy Warhol willy-nilly, then mixing in some off-brand rock ’n’ roll and trippy lightshow effects. Attraction is ostensibly about a young woman (Anita Sanders) who spends the day roaming through London, alternately following and being followed by studly black dude Terry Carter. While she contemplates a little afternoon delight, her mind races, preoccupied by all the issues confronting a fashionable lady of the late ’60s: war, religion, social mores, paranoia, standards of beauty, racial conflict, drugs, and all the other impediments to her getting her groove on.
All in all, Attraction is an ambitious (some might say pretentious) undertaking for Brass, and he isn’t exactly up to the task. The movie opens with a voice murmuring, “Who is in charge?” followed quickly by a distant shouted rant that consists of pseudo-meaningful utterings like “But what about violence? What about love? What about Ho Chi Minh?” While music by the Procol Harum spin-off band Freedom plays on the soundtrack, Sanders walks through the park, looking at hippies and gurus and muttering, “I don’t know. But then, who knows?” From there, we see Sanders head into the city and into her own mind, while Brass works in panels from Guido Crepax comics, newsreels of human atrocities, mimes, street graffiti that reads “U.S. Out Of Vietnam Now!” and more topless women per screen-minute than Russ Meyer at his randiest. If Brass’ goal was to de-eroticize the female breast by intercutting nude studies with Holocaust footage, then consider that goal achieved.
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Before directing "Salon Kitty" and moving into the erotic style of film making that he is more known for director Tinto Brass made a series of movies that can only be called "pop art" (these also include "L'urlo" and "Col cuore in gola"). This one, my personal favorite, follows a beautiful young woman (Anita Sanders) who, after being dropped off in the park by what seems to be her husband (I don't speak much Italian unfortunately!), spends the day wandering the city where she is sometimes pursued by a Black man who she seems to have an interest in despite her reluctance to confront him. On her trip Brass sneaks in statements on politics, racism, hippies, sexuality, conformity and other topical subjects through the use of disjointed editing, stock footage, psychedelia, and music from the UK rock group The Freedom (not the American group of the same name) who pop in and out performing the movie's groovy score. This is certainly a movie for someone enjoying nonsensical, train-of-thought plot less counterculture type films and anyone not liking that kind of thing would probably wanna steer clear. Radley Metzger released the film in the US through his Audobon distributing group as "The Artful Penetration of Barbara". This version, in Italian language only with a small Italian TV logo in the corner, is the only copy I have ever been able to find! It unfortunately appears to be cut as some of the nudity looks trimmed and some of it is covered up with a big psychedelic swirly thing! I have seen the excellent US trailer (as "Artful…") and would love to find an English language and uncut copy!

UPDATE: An English language version is now out on DVD from Cult Epics. It appears to have been sourced from 16mm but looks decent. There is an Italian version floating around from Italian cable TV that looks a bit more sharp but, alas, there are no English subtitles. Interstingly enough, each version has 1 song that is not in the other. Also the excellent tune "Seeing Is Believing" was used only in the trailer and does not appear in any version of the film!
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Nerosubianco (1969)

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