Salon Kitty

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william d @acsdoug 09/23/2021 The plot lacks coherence, but you probably wouldn't watch a movie like this for the story anyway. Salon Kitty commits a more unforgivable sin: it's kind of boring. See more 07/22/2020 Centered around Ken Adam's flamboyant production design, Salon Kitty works more as an exercise in extravagance and style than a coherent film. While flesh-obsessed director Tinto Brass does sprinkle some chillingly effective images throughout his onslaught of garish eroticism, his unrelenting fetishization of Nazi iconography eventually becomes more humorous than menacing. Part Wertmüller, part Visconti, and part Russell, Brass may be forever linked to the overwrought epic Caligula, but his prodigious talents at least place him in the conversation with these other great transgressive filmmakers. See more 09/26/2017 Nazi criticism ....no respect for women....utterly in a word....disgusting See more 08/01/2016 Nazi Germany, late-1930s. Germany is gearing up for war and one of their projects is to set up a brothel, where military officers and politicians can relax. SS Untergruppenfuhrer Helmut Wallenberg is tasked with the role of recruiting the girls - they must all be ardent National Socialists - and setting everything up. He views the brothel as a means to spy on senior officers and politicians, especially in order to weed out any traitors, and bugs the rooms. This has tragic consequences for one of the girls. Better than I expected. I was expecting a no-discernible-plot, heaps-of-gratuitous-nudity exploitation-type movie and this was better than that. There is a fair degree of nudity but it is fairly tame. Not very exploitative at all, especially compared to some movies in that genre. Plot is decent - it is coherent and not too holey. Just that it has a plot was a good start! Some engagement with the characters too. However, there are still many reminders that this is a B-movie. Continuity leaves a lot to be desired: eg a man's scar shifts from one side of his back to the other in one scene! Props are pretty basic: eg this movie contains the worst, most assymetrical, swastika flag yet seen. Performances are largely a bit hammy, but not too bad. The SS 2nd in command is ridiculously badly played though - the actor shouts every line at the top of his lungs! Very over-the-top. See more 06/20/2015 Popularly aligned with the nazisploitation genre, perhaps unfairly, this is the film that firmly cements Tinto Brass as the European Russ Meyer, a man who knows what to do with a camera but is assessed on what he chooses to focus it on. A decent enough "other side" wartime drama told with a deft hand. See more 06/13/2015 You can't expect something profound from Tinto Brass, though I am still shocked by Helmut Berger's nudity. See more Read all reviews

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