"One of the great taboo-smashers of the late ‘60s, directed by Tinto Brass, featuring interracial affairs, anti-Vietnam statements, violence versus sex." - MUBI

With an incredible psychedelic soundtrack from a band comprising 2 members of the prog rock band Procol Harum, this is non-sensical 1960s psychedelia at its best. 

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THE PLOT?

The film doesn't really have a plot - it feels more like a stream of consciousness. The interest of the film is more in its trippy non-sensical feel…however, here are a few things that take place in the film:

The premise is simple: Barbara – a married woman – is dropped off in Hyde Park by her husband Paolo. He has something to do elsewhere and she rather wants to wait for him in the park.

In this park, she encounters Hippies with their alternative lifestyle and starts wandering around London. In the subway, she encounters a black man who she immediately feels attracted to. He  notices that and starts following her throughout the city…

The film then goes on as a series of sequences that are between the "real" world, and Barbara's dream world…

TRIPPY VISUALS

Filled with great sound and visual effects including with monochrome and negative images and disjointed editing and montages, the film has hardly any dialogue and floats like a surreal trippy dream. 

MUSIC / PROCOL HARUM

"The score for Attraction was composed by Freedom, a British rock band that was formed by Ray Royer and Bobby Harrison, two former members of Procol Harum. Their psychedelic songs fuse perfectly with bizarre visual landscapes that director Tinto Brass weaves throughout." - 10 k bullets review

REVIEWS

"Ushering in a kind of Italian New Wave style of filmmaking, it marries Fellini’s surrealistic “bravura” style with the modern music video." - FILMS IN REVIEW

"One of the great taboo-smasers of the late '60s,directed by Tinto Brass, featuring interracial affairs, anti-Vietnam statements, violence versus sex. Attraction (Nerosubianco) will stun anyone expecting a standard softcore European sex flick as released originally in the US as The Artful Penetration of Barbara." - DIABOLIK DVD

"This is certainly a movie for someone enjoying nonsensical, train-of-thought plot less counterculture type films and anyone not liking that kind of thing would probably wanna steer clear." - EROTICA FILMS

ADRESSING TABOO SUBJECTS AND POLITICS

The film addresses the subject of love between a white and a black person. This was probably a taboo-topic in the 1960s, and through  stream-of-consciousness montages, the film explores many of Barbara’s thoughts about society and sexuality in a sometimes direct manner (it’s clearly written “Black on White”, “Nero su bianco”), sometimes indirectly.

The range of topics the film addresses is vast, and reaches from the sexual revolution to Antiwar-movements, and from Religion to  racism.

THE FILM THAT NEARLY LED TINTO BRASS TO A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

As Alexander Tuschinsky explains:

"The revolutionary filmic language of NEROSUBIANCO impressed some key players in the Hollywood film industry, so much that they decided to offer Tinto Brass a unique opportunity: to direct “A clockwork orange”, a big budget film to be produced by Paramount. An offer which he, because of some scheduling conflicts, declined.

“A clockwork orange” was later directed by S. Kubrick and became one of the 70s iconic films.

Because of this, Nerosubianco (English title: Attraction) is especially fascinating: Had Tinto Brass accepted the offer to direct "A clockwork orange” afterwards, it would surely have changed mainstream Hollywood cinema because of its unique and new visual language."

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: TINTO BRASS

- Tinto Brass is an Italian director who was born in 1933

- He is noted especially for his work in the erotic genre, with films such as Caligula, Così fan tutte (released under the English title All Ladies Do It)

- In 1972, he was part of the Jury of the Berlin Film Festival

TICKETS

On the door: £5 / £3.50 (conc)

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