Paprika - A life for love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Paprika - A life for love |
| Original title | paprika |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tinto Brass |
| script | Tinto Brass Bernardino Zapponi |
| production | Augusto Caminito |
| music | Riz Ortolani |
| camera | Silvano Ippoliti |
| cut | Tinto Brass |
| occupation | |
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Paprika - A Life for Love is an Italian erotic film by director Tinto Brass from 1991. The film is a modern interpretation of the novel Fanny Hill by the writer John Cleland . The German-language premiere took place on November 14, 1991.
action
Due to financial difficulties and to help her boyfriend set up a business, the young girl Mimma decides to buy something in a brothel . Her excursion into the horizontal trade is actually only planned for two weeks, but she likes working in Madame Colette's Venetian brothel. After discovering that her boyfriend has betrayed her in the meantime, Mimma decides to continue working there. She takes the name Paprika and becomes the best force in Madame Colette's brothel. The longing for great love leads her to numerous Italian establishments. In Rome she meets a rich, aged count and marries him. But the old count dies on the wedding night. As a now wealthy widow, she continues to chase after the great love and finally finds it with a sailor.
criticism
For the Fischer Film Almanach it was "the same film as always" at Brass, in which "nudities and copulations" increased. The lexicon of the international film was not enthusiastic about Brass' male fantasies and saw a "sexist brothel fairy tale that is completely absorbed in its voyeuristic and misogynistic attitude."
The Italian reviews were cautiously more positive. Fabio Ferzetti saw at Il Messaggero “despite the great attention that the film generated in advance, the repertoire was exhausted”. Maurizio Porro was enthusiastic about the "fast, lively, very cinematic" film. Gian Luigi Rondi from Il Tempo remarked that Brass could "of course turn into any street he wanted in a free country, but the critics who were expecting new paths would then be understandably silent."
Remarks
The film grossed just over 7 billion lire at the Italian box office in 1991 .
Web links
- Paprika - A life for love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Fischer Film Almanach 1992. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-11198-6 , p. 285
- ↑ Paprika - A Life for Love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 3, 2017 .
- ↑ quoted from The film description at comingsoon
- ^ Enrico Lancia: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film from 1990 to 2000 . Vol. 6, tomo 2, MZ. Gremese Editore, Rome, 2002, pp. 102/103