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From my favorite movies..

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Tinto Brass has made some things worth watching in my mind. He chooses to make erotic films, which is fine by me.I'm interested in erotic films. Naturally, they are enjoyable, the good ones that avoid the damages associated with porn. But they are something deep in us too, something having to do with performance.In a real erotic film, you'll have an actress (at the very least an actress) who is performing as a character who is performing for us. In porn, there is no difference; in erotic art, there is. Tinto in his better works understands this, and plays with it — sometimes — in effective ways.This film is worse in the way it works, and is better in how the story bends to the purpose. The story is about another layer of performing. Our heroine not only performs for our pleasure, but for also (as a prostitute) for a seemingly endless series of men.So the setup is fine.Making something that is erotic requires that the artist in charge decide what is erotic. Now that's a matter purely of style and not art. The choices he's made this time are different than the ones he's known for, though they seem superficially similar. But this woman is genuinely fat, thickwaisted. She has bad teeth and (the only thing that really matters) she carries herself gracelessly.You'll want to pass on this one, I think.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I bought "Paprika" to see Deborah Caprioglio naked and in sex scenes. The woman has a unique beauty that makes her very attractive. What can I do about it? I liked the movie for it's content (not only sexual) after I watched it. The plot is crude but is perfectly handled and in my opinion, fits in the "art movie" department. The sad display of a woman's suffering in this situation is provoking and emotional; and a little erotism didn't hurt.The acting is good, specially by Caprioglio. The sex scenes are steamy and justify the tone of the movie. Check out the train doggy style sex scene. Fabulous specially for Deborah's fans.Watch this movie with low expectations and you might like it, and if you acquire the movie for the nudity and sex scenes you won't regret! But if you are looking for Tinto Brass at his best, you will also feel satisfied.

The plot is very simple. In late '50s a young lady starts working as a prostitute in a brothel in order to help his boyfriend. She thinks that is the easiest way to make money. I do agree. Mr. Tinto Brass centered the view in Debora Caprioglio, who plays the roll of Paprika. Hell, she is very hot, sensual... but as nothing is perfect in her life she will go from one place to another and this is a kind of repetitive. She is filmed from every angle you can imagine. You can imagine that with the view centered on Caprioglio the other ladies are not seen in plenitude. Doesn't matter Caprioglio is the hottest woman in the movie and is a well chosen actress for the leading actress. Her performance is very good. Finally I would like to say that this movie is far from pornography. Brass actual is close to porno. But this one has a simple plot, is funny, long but could be seen. 6/10 Andrés.

Some may call director Tinto Brass the Italian reply to Russ Meyer and indeed I really loved his trash-epic "Caligula". And even though this one is produced with an almost same expenditure, it´s pretty dull and not that spectacular at all! While Russ Meyer´s provoking with cheeky satires, his Italian colleague puts lots of nudity on a show without being really entertaining or fresh in any way! The best sequence in this film is the dinner-scene, which has got some great situational comic, the rest lies somewhere between camp and smuddle. Actually a pity in view of some quite competent persons involved in this flick: Klaus Kinski´s former darling Debora Caprioglio is giving an okay-performance, John Steiner from Ruggero Deodato´s "Cut and Run" as well as Tinto´s "Caligula" is in and Riz Ortolani, who did a great job with the outstanding "Cannibal Holocaust"-score composed some good music suited to the brothel-mood. However, they all couldn´t save the film! Thoroughly, "Paprika" is better than all those American direct-to-video-shots, but true fans of sleaze-cinema should check out Russ Meyer´s "Fanny Hill" once more!