Director Tinto Brass is known for his distinctive impressionistic style, characterized by his use of mirrors, that mimic the subjective gaze of an observer, immersing the audience in a world of voyeuristic fantasy. His camera is inseparable from his renowned "fetish for the female derrière"; Trasgredire is full of scenes framed to highlight the curves and contours of the actors' bodies. Critically, Brass films the female body not as an object to be conquered, but as a source of joyful, unapologetic power.
The sun had just set over the bustling streets of São Paulo, casting a warm orange glow over the city. In a small, trendy neighborhood, a group of friends gathered at a place known simply as "The Red Spot" – a bar famous for its Tinto de Verano, a refreshing summer drink made with red wine and lemon soda.
By 2000, Tinto Brass had already directed notorious films like Caligula (1979), The Key (1983), and Paprika (1991). Trasgredire , however, marked a return to a more intimate, almost comedic form of erotic storytelling.
Brass famously celebrates the female form with a specific focus on curves and natural beauty, rejecting the sanitized, airbrushed standards of mainstream Hollywood. Impact and Reception
– Opaque purple-black with a brick-orange rim. Twenty years on, it still stains the glass like a 1990s lipstick kiss on a cocktail napkin.
By the year 2000, Tinto Brass had fully perfected his signature visual style, which is on full display in Trasgredire :
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When Matteo, desperate and suspicious, rushes to London, he finds Moira naked in Carla's apartment. A tense confrontation ensues in which Matteo, after refusing Carla's desperate offer to perform fellatio on him, storms out. However, after a long walk through a park, where he witnesses numerous acts of casual public sex, his perspective shifts. When Carla later presents him with a written account of all her infidelities, Matteo declares that he no longer needs to know, implicitly accepting that sexual freedom can coexist with love.
The narrative explores the conflict between Carla's genuine love for Matteo and her natural, uninhibited sexual desires. As the Arrow Films synopsis describes, the film is "a genuinely moving look at problems arising when a desire to remain scrupulously faithful collides with the lure of baser instincts". Trasgredire challenges the very notion of "cheating," redefining it not as a betrayal, but as a form of personal exploration.
(released internationally as Cheeky ) is a 2000 Italian erotic comedy film directed by the undisputed maestro of voyeuristic cinema, Tinto Brass . The movie features Ukrainian actress Yuliya Mayarchuk in her breakout role. It serves as a definitive milestone in the latter half of Brass’s career, seamlessly bridging 20th-century cinematic eroticism with the modern aesthetics of the new millennium.