Dom Robinson reviews

Cert:

Cat.no: FCD 100

Running time: 98 minutes

Year: 1998

Pressing: 2001

Region(s): 2 (UK PAL)

Chapters: 16 plus extras

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Stereo)

Languages: Dubbed English

Subtitles: None

Widescreen: 1.66:1

16:9-enhanced: No

Macrovision: Yes

Disc Format: DVD 5

Price: £15.99

Extras: Interview with director, Filmography of director, Erotic Photogallery

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Director:

Tinto Brass (Caligula, Frivolous Lola, The Key, Miranda, PO Box Tinto Brass, Salon Kitty, The Voyeur)

Producer:

Giovanni Bertolucci

Screenplay:

Tinto Brass, Barbara Alberti and Carla Cipriani

Music:

Pino Donaggio

Cast:

Lola: Anna Ammirati
Andre: Patrick Mower
Masetto: Mario Parodi
Michelle: Susanna Martinkova
Pepe: Antonio Salines

Her name is Lola, but she's not a showgirl, just a show-off as she rides around town on her bike flashing her big arse off to anyone who'll look, whilst ensuring that her tits are almost on display but not quite. Yes, it's more Tinto Brass bollocks with OTT up-skirt cam shots and dodgy American dubbing.

The story, such that it is, sees Lola (Anna Ammirati) planning to marry baker's son Masetto (Mario Parodi) but because he wants to wait until they're married for her to lose her virginity, she decides she wants to be broken in sooner and goes after her mother's lover Andre (Patrick Mower, the only person who doesn't do bad dubbing!)

The film includes a ridiculous masturbation scene where she spanks her monkey to the tune of "Be Bop A Lula", preceeded by pulling out some of her pubic hairs one by one in a "he loves me, he loves me not"-type query, but with a forest like that it'll take all day.

Only take an interest in this if arty-farty pseudo sex is your bag.

Four Lolas for the price of one.

The picture quality is acceptable but not outstanding. Most of it is shot in soft-focus but there doesn't seem to be any particular artifact problems so it's as good as it's going to get. The back cover states the ratio as 16:9 letterbox, but it's actually 1.66:1 (15:9) and can comfortably be zoomed in to fill a widescreen TV.

The sound is the usual dodgy nonsense - no Oscars for this movie soundtrack! The dialogue, originally Italian, is dubbed into English.

The extras include an 8-minute on-set Interview with director, but which set is it because it's not this one as it shows him filming naked women in communal baths, none of wihch can be seen in this film, a list of his films in the Filmography of director section and a 22-strong Erotic Photogallery.

The film has 16 chapters which isn't enough, but are you really going to sit and study this film all the way through? Since there's English dubbing there's no subtitles and the main menu has music from the film with clips playing in a portion of the screen and Lola's big bum in the rest.

Lola auditions for Basic Instinct 2.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.