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Attraction (Nerosubianco)
[Cult Epics]
1969; color
Directed by Tinto Brass
Starring: Anita Sanders, Terry Carter, Nino Segurini, Umberto Di Grazia & Freedom
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To my knowledge I've only watched one Tinto Brass films previously, the previously reviewed Deadly Sweet. I don't remember disliking it but, honestly, I don't really remember much about it at all. (Apparently the Kommandant seemed to like it. Of course, we don't always agree on movies.) I doubt I'll have the same feeling after watching this week's fare but, by the same token, I will be remembering Attraction for all the wrong reasons. Mainly I will remember how, while it was on, I wished I was finding out who of the final four would be eliminated from Top Chef instead. (Fortunately Bravo reruns things at an obscene rate so I didn't have to wait too long to find out. See you 'round Jen; I'll miss your negative attitude and thick Northeast Philly accent.) As promised by the box cover, the film is "nearly plotless" (um... nearly?) and apparently "often improvised." Meaning, instead of a plot we have a mess of nonsensical dream sequence type scenes interspersed with the occasional bit of largely unrelated stock footage. Instead of dialogue we have a William Burroughs-esque cut and paste aural landscape of disjointed internal dialogue - at least I think that's what it was - and radio commercials for feminine products and the like. (Tres Throbbing Gristle!) On the plus side the female star, Anita Sanders, is really hot and prances around for the film's 80 or so minutes in various stages of era appropriate dress and undress, her lovely red locks flapping in the breeze while her expertly liquid eyeliner lined eyes cast a curious gaze upon all sorts of kooky scenes featuring men and women engaged in various counter culture activities and / or just kind of wandering aimlessly living their daily lives and, in one scene at least, women sitting in a makeshift beauty salon wearing poorly made paper mache cow heads. (I think it was supposed to be cheeky social commentary about the horrors of traditional marriage in the modern age.) On the negative side... well, as far as I'm concerned a lot of the other aspects of this film would wind up on this side. Truthfully though, I am not the target audience for this type of DVD release. I mean, I'm totally in favor of inter-racial harmony and gender equality but I do have a prejudice towards "art films," softcore sex, pseudo political anarchistic rhetoric delivered by rich people who are very much part of the establishment and other general forms of late '60s / early '70s bullshit. And, seriously, the horrifying hippie soundtrack made me want to puncture my eardrums with my pointiest knitting needles. Seriously. No, SERIOUSLY! It is possible if I had watched it with the sound off or - at the risk of using a Steel Cage related reference - a Sioux City Pete And The Beggars CD as the soundtrack instead, I may have enjoyed it slightly more. But only slightly. And only because Anita Sanders is really hot.
—Bunny
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