The “vacation” becomes a slow, methodical dissection of the couple’s failure to connect. They speak past each other. They have sex not out of passion, but out of habit. In one excruciating 12-minute long take (Brass’s homage to Antonioni), Immacolata watches Guglielmo sleep while a television in the room broadcasts news of a political assassination. The sound of the TV bleeds into her internal monologue. She smiles. Not with joy, but with the grim recognition that violence outside mirrors the emptiness inside.
This film is often cited as Tinto Brass’s visual masterpiece. Collaborating with cinematographers and Alfio Contini , Brass created a distinct aesthetic that differs heavily from his later work. The Vacation -La Vacanza- - Tinto Brass 1971 -S...
, offers a hallucinatory and subversive look at the blurred lines between sanity and societal expectation. The Vacation (La Vacanza) – A Review Tinto Brass The “vacation” becomes a slow, methodical dissection of