9/10
For Mme. Grandi cognoscenti
14 January 2009
Warning: Spoilers
One aspect of Brass' dirty fancies is that they're meant as colossal, lively, bizarre fun. But that's not just Brass—of course; that's a whole slice of the Italian genre cinema—the Italian dirty flicks ….

Brass is only (and this, symbolically—not even chronologically) the torchbearer of this movement.

Monella (1998) is indeed quite a movie; and, erotically, it was Serena Grandi's swansong. Of course, there are also Anna Ammirati, Edith Rozanyai, Laura Trotter, Francesca Nunzi, Susanna Martinková—but, with MONELLA, Mrs. Grandi, at 40 yrs., left the movies. For me at least, Serena is the true, gorgeous, awesome star of MONELLA. At 40, she had what to show; she was older than Mrs. Sandrelli in LA CHIAVE—and what a body! MONELLA is the Brassian sex—feast par excellence. The master conceived his flick as a sex—parade, back to the grimly serene, funny naturalism of MIRANDA (or, less well handled, PAPRIKA).

Mrs. Grandi wasn't as solicited by the directors as she should have been; regardless, she is , together with Sandrelli, Koll, Dellera, Caprioglio, Miti, one of the core actresses of the erotica. These girls' movies are indeed textbooks.
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