Deadly Sweet: Tinto Brass’ Erotic Movie to Pre-Open Venice Film Fest 2026

‘Deadly Sweet’ Erotic Movie by Director Tinto Brass to Pre-Open Venice Film Fest

Deadly Sweet
Venice Film Fest
The world premiere of the restored version of 1967 erotic cult movie Deadly Sweet, directed by Italian Tinto Brass, will be shown in Venice Fest as its pre-opening event.

The new digital 4k version of Deadly Sweet, which stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Sweden’s Ewa Aulin, has been restored by Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia film archives with support from Netflix.

It will screen on the Lido on Sept. 1 and also be included in the Venice Classics program.

The erotic pop thriller, which Brass shot in London, stars Trintignant as young man who discovers that his business contact has been murdered. Instead of calling the police, he decides to protect a young woman, played by Aulin, at the crime scene and pursue the real killers‚ which puts him on a collision course with the London underworld.

“Deadly Sweet” is one of several films shot by the director in Britian, followed by “Attraction” (“Nerosubianco,” 1969) and “Dropout” (1970).

Brass is best-known to international critics for Caligula, which was made in 1979 and released in 1984 in a different cut. The film was self-financed in 1980 by Penthouse founder Bob Guccione who after fighting with Brass and writer Gore Vidal wrested control of the project and tossed out the script,  He added adult content shot after the actors–Helen Mirren, Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, and Peter O’Toole–had finished their work.  Brass and Vidal then sued to have their names removed from the picture.

The festival’s lineup will be announced July 23.

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