Tinto Brass Biography
Tinto Brass (1933 - ) Giovanni “Tinto” Brass was born in Milan on 26 March 1933, he is an Italian director, screenwriter and writer and is considered the master of eros. He graduated in law at the University of Ferrara and, having then moved to Paris with his wife Carla Cipriani (known as Tinta), he was an archivist at the Cinematheque Française, one of the most prestigious and rich collections in the world. Back in Italy, he worked as an assistant director for Alberto Cavalcanti and Roberto Rossellini. He has received the unanimous attention of critics since his first work: “Who works is lost” in 1963. In 1964 he directed the two episodes “The bird” and “The car” of the film “La mia Signora”, with Silvana Mangano and Alberto Sordi. In the same year and with the same actors he made "The Flying Disco". Numerous other films followed, among which it is worth mentioning "The Scream" from 1968, a transgressive poetic mirror of an era, but censorship prevented its screening until '74. In 1976 he achieved a worldwide success with "Io, Caligola" which he decided not to direct due to some problems with the production which excluded him from the editing. There are still numerous films by Tinto Brass in which the director explains and explores the intricacies of eroticism. The most famous of which is “La Chiave” with Stefania Sandrelli. Among his most recent films, in 2002 he directed Anna Galiena and Gabriel Garko in “Senso '45”, loosely inspired by the story “Senso” by Camillo Boito. In 2003 he returned to erotic comedy with the episodic film "Fallo!". Tinto Brass has always personally edited all his films, which gives his work the expressive unity of auteur cinema. The director also directed works in the theater such as "Family Lunch" by Roberto Lerici (1973), a show revived five times, with the same director, until 1986, the year in which, invited to New York, it achieved a success of critics and the public. In 2006, the year of the death of his inseparable wife, the Cinémathèque Française of Paris dedicated a tribute-retrospective to Tinto Brass entitled “Eloge de la chair” (In Praise of the Flesh), with a screening in the prestigious hall of the Parisian Grands Boulevards of 10 of his films.
