Product Details

• Actors: Gino Cavalieri, Barbara Cupisti, Frank Finlay, Stefania Sandrelli, Armando Marra
• Directors: Tinto Brass
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Cult Epics
• DVD Release Date: August 31, 2004
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002M5UBA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,845 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

After twenty years of marriage, art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him as well. This sets off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications, as Nino and his unpredictable fascist daughter find that they both enjoy being jealous.
The Key, based on the Japanese novel by Junichiro Tanizaki is Tinto Brass' erotic masterpiece, regarded worldwide as one of the best erotic movies ever made.

SPECIAL DVD FEATURES
- Exclusive 17 minute Interview with director Tinto Brass
- Photo gallery
- Trailers
- Filmographies
- Scene selection
- Widescreen
- Dual layer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It's called subtitles..., January 25, 2005

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S. Koropeckyj "Romi Panchir" (The Bright Side of the Moon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Key (DVD)

I have full respect for Tinto Brass: he managed to find relatively attractive women, hire them, then shoot nude pictures of them. Unfortunately that was pretty much the plot of this movie.

The plot is thin at best. As far as I could figure, it was about a group of four people: two men and two women, and one of the men took pictures of one of the women. Love triangles and so on...

However the plot was almost indiscernable because I was not even able ot understand most of what was happening in the movie. One half of the movie, the English version, was not in English. It was in German, French, and Italian. And guess what! There was not a single subtitle in the entire film! The English was just as incomprehensible. It was spoken with such a heavy accent and in often mumbled tones that they may as well have been speaking another language.

So, ultimately, this movie is not worth picking up in its current form. Unless Tinto Brass is your favorite person ever, The Key is just plain mediocre and lacking plot and clarity.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Key by Tinto Brass, October 28, 2008

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Alexander Bereznitsky (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Key (DVD)

Best film by Tinto Brass!
Stephania Sandrelli is fantastic!
Story, cast, direction is outstanding!
Highly recommend.
Keep in mind, this is not a porno.
This is erotica! In good meaning of the word.

27 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the director of Caligula!, November 20, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Key (DVD)

This is one of my favourite Tinto Brass films, the guy who made Caligula. Features the beautiful Serena Grandi. DVD is looking very good, and is in English, except a few subtitles when they speak Italian. Interesting interview with Tinto Brass as well. Better than todays erotic films.