Overview
- The Venice Film Festival announced on Monday that it will screen the restored 1967 film Deadly Sweet on Sept. 1 as a pre-opening event and include it in the Venice Classics strand.
- The restoration was completed in 4K by Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia with backing from Netflix and source materials provided by rights holder Compass Film.
- Deadly Sweet is a London-shot pop thriller starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ewa Aulin that premiered out of competition at Venice in 1967 and draws on Sergio Donati’s novel Il Sepolcro di Carta.
- Programming the restored print signals a renewed institutional look at Tinto Brass’s work, which is best known internationally for later, contentious erotic films such as Salon Kitty and Caligula.
- The festival runs Sept. 2–12 with its full lineup due July 23 and the Netflix-supported restoration highlights a wider trend of streaming services funding archival work that affects how films are preserved and shown.