Snack Bar Budapest

This is a DVD by Tinto Brass with region 1 and play with DVDplayer in US and Canada , Pictures and Sound is very good with a lot of Scenes about sex , I love it .

Compared to other Tinto Brass good bright sexy movies this is poorly made. Stupid gang violence story line, bad dialoge and the video poor quality. No charachters here.I love Giancarlo Gianini, but his talent was wasted here. Just a bunch of girls running around. Don't waste your money. Rent/buy: The Key, Frivolous Lola, Miranda, Cheeky etc....

Tinto brass always good/quick delivery no complaints

Exactly what I wanted.

Not what you expect from Tinto Brass, yes, this is serious stuff--life as is. It is very often that life is confusing and we have to risk everything just to make a point which maybe against our ability to survive and this summarize all movie. Tinto Brass actually step on himself as he prefer easy way--good looking chicks, happy ending, sex, easy, easy--life is too short. The movie structured in right direction, characters developing, chicks hot but behave badly. Enjoy!

Great stylish film noir, and rare non erotic movie from maestro Tinto Brass, "Snack Bar Budapest" made in 1988, stands along closer to the earlier works of the aggressively "against tabu" director, who's well known for "Caligula" (1980) but has made poignant, excellent films such as "Drop Out", "La Vacanza", "Salon Kitty" and also "The Key" which might be erotica, but it is for sure widely considered a masterpiece of the genre and not just limited to it. This movie which was marketed by Medusa at the time with a strong publicity campaign that was mistakenly pushing on sex, it is actually a dark, desperate, crime drama adapted for the screen from a book of Marco Bre and Silvia Lodoli, set in an imprecise place and time, in a deserted, wintry summer resort which is actually splendidly photographed with authentic darkness and beauty by Alessio Gelsini, and, showcases the lives of a bunch of disillusioned misfits: a boozing attorney (Giancarlo Giannini delivers great work), his pregnant, unhappy girlfriend with a past (beautiful femme fatale, Raffaella Baracchi), and their abrupt friend Lapo (Philppe Leotard). They have the bad faith to get acquainted to a young (adolescent) gangster (Francois Negret from Academy Award winner's Louis Malle's "Au Revoir les enfants") who seems to quite foolishly terrify the whole riviera with a gang just made by young hooligans and prostitutes. While the lawyer tries desperately to get a break, also to assist Milena (his girl), complications will arise ill fated, and, unfortunately intersecting the faith of the leads in a vortex of love and death. This utterly melancholic, extremely well directed, and staged, acted, and produced (by Giovanni Bertolucci) movie, it is a rather phantasmagorical, dreamy neo noir of unique effect, and incredibly restrained technical style and editing, and, while it presents an array of gruesome sequences, and, horrifying murders, cruel, and rabid sentiments, perhaps, it does fail in delivering the promised and usual warm sensuality that normally defines the work of the maestro, but nonetheless, it does indeed present Brass as an author of great and diverse strength, gifted with cinematic bravura, capable of telling a story with deadly and pessimistic tones, with the same intensity and effective and visionary filmmaking used in way different atmospheres, and, in more financially successful movies.

tinto at his best worth watching

Soddisfatto del DVD e della consegna stessa per il france. Satisfait du DVD et de la livraison même pour la france.

no la habia visto nunca no es una gran peli del maestro Tinto, pero si refleja las luces de neon los espejos y suelos asi como los vestidos al estilo Salon kitty, no se cual seria antes, para mi es un poco empalagosa la historia debido a la lentitud en que se desarrolla, digamos que otra de las que me faltaban para la coleccion de Tinto Brass.

mauvaise qualité de l'image

Given the shortage of inspiration (and collections), Brass temporarily leaving the soft-porn and try to return to its roots earnest. The result is an embarrassing yellow-noir melodrama where the inconsistency, the fragmented narrative and absurdity dominate. Laughable. Sic Visible. Tinto Brass obsessed lovers, do not worry he'll get over soon. However one sees his hand: beautiful shots, Giancarlo Giannini enhanced by close-ups, but aihme 'a plot to amateur! Tinto excuse, I saw almost all your movies, but this just does not deserve your talent ... I would in my drawer a drama series, which appears the Budapest of the late 70's, .. please contact me.