The Voyeur

• Cat.no: NPD 1004
• Cert: 18
• Running time: 91 minutes
• Year: 1993
• Pressing: 1999
• Region(s): 2 (UK PAL)
• Chapters: 12 plus extras
• Sound: Linear PCM Stereo
• Languages: English dubbing
• Subtitles: None
• Widescreen: 1.44:1 (13:9)
• 16:9-enhanced: No
• Macrovision: No
• Disc Format: DVD 5
• Price: £15.99
• Extras : Scene index, Picture Gallery

  Director:

  Tinto Brass

  (Caligula, The Key, Miranda, PO Box Tinto Brass, Salon Kitty)

Screenplay:

Cast:

Katarina Vasilassa
Francesco Casale
Cristina Garavaglia
Raffaella Offidani
Franco Branciaroli

The Voyeuris a film from Italian erotica director Tinto Brass which has a simplestoryline if it has one at all: Dodo loves his sensuous, blonde wife Sylviavery much and the feeling is reciprocated. However, she keeps disappearingfor no good reason whatsoever (even the back cover doesn’t give any clues).

Dodo is The Voyeur and as well as playing hide the salami with his missus,he turns on the charm with his black, female student Pascasie and watchesher do her bit for international relations with her white girlfriend.Meanwhile, he also has eyes when his father Alberto makes advances towardshis housemaid Fausta.

The film plays out in a series of segments but don’t expect the greatest ofplot consistencies here. However, what you can expect is hinted at in thethree screengrabs accompanying this review.

# “Ebony and Ivory
go together in perfect harmony…” #

The picture quality is acceptable but not outstanding. Most of it is shotin soft-focus but there doesn’t seem to be any particular artifact problemsso it’s as good as it’s going to get. The back cover states the ratio as4:3 fullscreen, but it’s more like a slight-widescreen ratio of approximately1.44:1 (13:9) and can comfortably be zoomed in to fill a widescreen TV.The average bitrate is an above average 6.46Mb/s, occasionally peakingabove 9Mb/s.

The sound is mostly cheesy music – exactly what you expect when the charactersstart getting down to the business – and the language, originally Italian,is dubbed into English with a Dynasty-style dialogue. There’s no Dolby Digitallogo on the cover so I presume it’s uncompressed Linear PCM Stereo.

The Spring 2000 Collection for Nuns.

There are only 12 chapters during the 91-minute film. Usually I’d like tosee more, but each covers an individual “encounter”.

Languages & Subtitles :Dubbed English as previously stated, but no subtitles. Picture Gallery :Not the greatest of extras, but a 16-strong selection of soft-focusclip-shots (*I* said CLIP !) Menu :Static and silent, but a couple of pics of the seductive Sylvia providethe backdrop to the options to start the film, select a scene or viewthe picture gallery.

The sun and the moon.