This year the Pietro Bianchi Award will be presented to Tinto Brass, a distinction that the Italian Cinema Journalists (SNGCI) traditionally confer at the Lido, in coordination with the Venice Biennale, to an outstanding figure in Italian cinema. The tribute this year is more closely linked than ever to the Biennale, chaired by Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, and to the International Film Festival directed by Alberto Barbera, who dedicate the pre-opening to his film Col cuore in gola (1967), world premiere on Tuesday, September 1, in a 4K digital restoration by CSC – National Film Archive with decisive support from Netflix and using materials from rights holders Compass Film.
“Director, screenwriter, editor, writer and also actor, Tinto Brass is a master of cinema that is radically free, visionary and ahead of his time, capable of crossing genres and eras with the force of a gaze that is forever irreverent, nonconformist and deeply vital,” reads the motivation of the Italian Film Journalists. “Brass has succeeded in reinventing the language of cinema with the taste of auteur cinema and, at the same time, the instinct of a great experimenter. A unique protagonist of Italian cinema who dared to look beyond the rules of the gaze to invent the imaginary of a cinema marked by cultural provocations that have shaped the history of fashion and show business.”
Col cuore in gola (1967)
A pop thriller directed and cut with Tinto Brass’s distinctly personal stamp, Col cuore in gola was shot entirely in London, featuring exceptional leads Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ewa Aulin. It stands as the first film in the trilogy of capital-set features realized with the special graphic input of Guido Crepax, freely inspired by Sergio Donati’s novel The Paper Tomb, scripted by Tinto Brass, Francesco Longo and Pierre Lévy-Corti, and accompanied by a score from Armando Trovajoli. Col cuore in gola tells the story of a brief, yet fatal encounter between a French actor who happens upon a young woman in a state of shock, found before the body of a man.
The restoration
Carried out by the CSC – National Film Archive with the decisive support of Netflix and using materials from rights holders Compass Film, the restoration brings back the splendor to a cult work, a manifesto of free and experimental cinema from the 1960s, which thanks to the 1983 Venice Show returns to the big screen to testify to the radical modernity of a filmmaker who anticipated the times, redefining the boundaries of the visual language.
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