DVD
Private

Starring: Marusha Albertazzi, Virginia Barrett, Sarah Cosmi, Lyudmila Derkach, Angela Ferlaino, Grazia Morelli and Federica Palmer
Arrow Films/Fremantle Home Entertainment
RRP £17.99
FCD151
Certificate: 18
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Six erotic tales of subterfuge, betrayal and mischief include the exploits of Cinzia, who indulges in a ménage a trois with her husband and a young waiter. A circle of television personalities have affairs amongst themselves. Highly sexed hotel waitress Katarina enjoys the sexual advances of a couple of guests. Raffaella, an unfaithful wife, convinces her husband that her affairs are fantasies told for his pleasure. Anna and her photographer fiancé find themselves swinging with a couple of fellow artists. And Frederica flaunts her body from a hotel window...

This is not the usual kind of "telly fantasy" that we do here at Review Graveyard, but what the hell.!

In true Tinto Brass style, the women depicted here are attractive, with much attention focused on their ample backsides, though they are not the bikini-waxed, silicon-implanted fakes of the kind found in American erotic films. Indeed, these Italians are noticeably hairier than their American - or British - counterparts, in both the crotch and armpit departments. However, they remain undeniably and naturally sexy.

There is much humour in this collection of tales, which contains a range of eccentric characters, in particular the dominatrix Frau Bertha (Virginia Barrett) and her submissive husband (Leo Mantovani) in Two Hearts and a Hut, and the artistic swingers in Honni Soit Qui Mal Y Pense. Each story culminates in some kind of punchline or poetic justice.

There is additional, unintentional, mirth to be had at the expense of the woeful dubbing into English. This is DVD, so why couldn't the original Italian dialogue have been left intact with the option of English subtitles. Anyone buying this product just to see flesh won't be interested in the story or the dialogue in any case. I don't see why the movie's original title, Do It! was deemed unsuitable for the English-speaking market either.

One advantage of the DVD medium is chapter selection, which allows you to watch these six stories in any order you choose. I leapt straight into Honni Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, because the synopsis on the back cover promised a nudist camp setting.

Unfortunately, the cover blurb is pretty hopeless: the synopses are either misleading or downright inaccurate. Perhaps something got lost in translation, because Honni only makes a brief visit to a naturist resort, while Call Me a Pig... Cause I Like It (love that title, by the way) is not set in a train as described.

However, gripes about the presentation aside, this is good, sexy fun. DVD extras include a photo gallery, a trailer, a three-minute promotional film and a 17-minute behind-the-scenes feature.

Chris Clarkson

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