P.O. Box Tinto Brass

• Cat.no: NPD 1003
• Cert: 18
• Running time: 87 minutes
• Year: 1995
• Pressing: 1999
• Region(s): 2 (UK PAL)
• Chapters: 9 plus extras
• Sound: Linear PCM Stereo
• Languages: English dubbing
• Subtitles: None
• Widescreen: 1.55:1 (14:9)
• 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, Salon Kitty, The Voyeur)

Producer:

Screenplay:

Music:

Cast:

Cinzia Roccaforte
Cristina Rinaldi
Erika Saffo Savastani
Gaia Zucchi
Carla Solaro

P.O. Box Tinto Brassis another film from Italian erotica director Tinto Brass.According to the billing on the back cover, he is revered by thousands ofbeautiful young women who long to appear in his films.

He’s apparently received truckloads of of unsolicited letters, photos andvideos from female fans, all recounting their most intimate sexual fantasies.It’s here where he puts them into practice.

What results can be glimpsed at from the three screengrabs accompanyingthis review.

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 approximately1.55:1 (14:9) – so akin to an analogue TV broadcast when digital viewers areexperienced a 16:9 anamorphic widescreen showing – and can comfortably bezoomed in to fill a widescreen TV.The average bitrate is an above average 6.70Mb/s, occasionally peakingabove 9Mb/s.

The sound is the usual dodgy nonsense – no Oscars for this movie soundtrack!The dialogue, originally Italian, is dubbed into English and the novelwill win no Booker prize awards. There’s no Dolby Digitallogo on the cover so I presume it’s uncompressed Linear PCM Stereo.