Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Cristi_Ciopron Highly atypical of Brass' movies, this one is a potpourri of whorehouse scenes, loosely connected.(His best movies are, on the contrary, quite unified pictures in the shape of a bourgeois or rural drama/sex satire, and rather _intimist also, exploiting the sense of intimacy, secret, privacy unveiled ,etc..)This one is more like a whorehouse almanac, with some camp Fellinian dizziness and cold vertigo. On the other hand, it represents well Brass' gynecological approach, and Mme. Caprioglio's exposed genitalia are intensely fondled a couple of times during some medical exams. PAPRIKA might also be conspicuous for a note of meanness that supplements the shameless cynicism characteristic of Brass' products. Here there is a certain meanness and aggressiveness in the satire. The paradox is the obvious injustice done to Mme. Caprioglio's breasts—while everybody in the film—her chiefs in the brothel, her uncle, etc.—keep praising, touching, fondling her considerable ass, as the most exciting part of her body, it is nonetheless very evident that this place belongs to her tits. Her most extraordinary endowment, and especially at such young an age, are her tits. No one mentions them in the movie, and barely touches them ….Mme. Caprioglio illustrates Brass' view of the colossally exciting woman—like Grandi,like Vassilissa, like Koll ….Brass exalts women whose sexuality and appeal are over-explicit and very tangible.Since I was 15, Deborah is on my list of favorite soft—core actresses (with Grandi, Miti, Sandrelli, Tweed, and,more newly, Sinclair—the Hungarian one).Can you believe that no one in PAPRIKA praises her tits or at least notices their size, appeal, etc.? PAPRIKA is an brothel album comprising several shameless, sulfurous ,even angry, nihilist aqua-fortes. Brass pretends it wanted it a joyful celebration, a cheerful feast.But the movie looks sometimes angry and mean,as I said.It has not the enormous beauty to be found in LA CHIAVE or MIRANDA.Brass was usually keen in filming the masculine answer, the erection, the natural masculine reaction to physical feminine beauty.

insomniac_rod I'm not ashamed to admit that I bought "Paprika" to see Deborah Caprioglio naked and in sex scenes. The woman has a unique beauty that makes her very attractive. What can I do about it? I liked the movie for it's content (not only sexual) after I watched it. The plot is crude but is perfectly handled and in my opinion, fits in the "art movie" department. The sad display of a woman's suffering in this situation is provoking and emotional; and a little erotism didn't hurt.The acting is good, specially by Caprioglio. The sex scenes are steamy and justify the tone of the movie. Check out the train doggy style sex scene. Fabulous specially for Deborah's fans.Watch this movie with low expectations and you might like it, and if you acquire the movie for the nudity and sex scenes you won't regret! But if you are looking for Tinto Brass at his best, you will also feel satisfied.

DJ Inferno Some may call director Tinto Brass the Italian reply to Russ Meyer and indeed I really loved his trash-epic "Caligula". And even though this one is produced with an almost same expenditure, it´s pretty dull and not that spectacular at all! While Russ Meyer´s provoking with cheeky satires, his Italian colleague puts lots of nudity on a show without being really entertaining or fresh in any way! The best sequence in this film is the dinner-scene, which has got some great situational comic, the rest lies somewhere between camp and smuddle. Actually a pity in view of some quite competent persons involved in this flick: Klaus Kinski´s former darling Debora Caprioglio is giving an okay-performance, John Steiner from Ruggero Deodato´s "Cut and Run" as well as Tinto´s "Caligula" is in and Riz Ortolani, who did a great job with the outstanding "Cannibal Holocaust"-score composed some good music suited to the brothel-mood. However, they all couldn´t save the film! Thoroughly, "Paprika" is better than all those American direct-to-video-shots, but true fans of sleaze-cinema should check out Russ Meyer´s "Fanny Hill" once more!

EFW The movie does have a plot that traces the adventures of a young prostitute. But do people really watch and rewatch this movie for its plot? I doubt it very much! The main reason to watch this movie is young Deborah Caprioglio, photographed from every angle at the peak of her voluptuous beauty. She is breathtakingly beautiful, and Tinto Brass's light-hearted eroticism found its most memorable protagonist. The actress continues to make movies, but nothing measures up to the visual impact of this film.