Seeing "Salon Kitty" in its uncut version turned out to be a mixed blessing; at 133 minutes (!!) this movie is way overlong. Any chances it might have had of being taken seriously as a historical drama are quickly destroyed by Tinto Brass' excessive focus on male and female genitalia. Within the first 10 minutes, you've already seen enough flapping d***s to last you a lifetime. And later on, in what must be a screen first (thank you Mr. Brass), we even get a full-frontal nude shot of a deformed midget! "Salon Kitty" is just as outrageously exploitative as the infamous "Caligula". It may not match that film in the "quantity" of its perversions, but it more than matches it in the "quality". Also like "Caligula", the film has a vague, barely-existent storyline which doesn't begin to make its points (about using Nazism as a vehicle for power and sexual domination) until the last 10 minutes, and lacks any characters the audience can relate to. The woman played by Teresa Ann Savoy could have been such a character, but the actress, while luscious, is not very expressive; all the others are way over-the-top. The production is handsome, but for some reason everything seems to be bathed in white. And the language is an ungodly mess. Most of the dialogue is in English (clearly not dubbed), some of it is in Italian and there a couple of German lines as well! (*1/2)
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