The film won the Pasinetti Award for Best Italian Film at the 1971 Venice Film Festival.
The film stars the legendary as Immacolata, a woman released from a psychiatric hospital for a brief "vacation." Far from a relaxing getaway, her time in the outside world becomes a surreal journey through a society that feels more disordered and repressive than the asylum she left behind. The film won the Pasinetti Award for Best
The search for often leads cinephiles down a rabbit hole of 1970s Italian avant-garde cinema. While many associate director Tinto Brass exclusively with his later erotic works like Caligula or Monella , his 1971 film La Vacanza (The Vacation) stands as a stark, politically charged masterpiece that defies easy categorization. The Plot: A "Vacation" from Sanity While many associate director Tinto Brass exclusively with
: It is considered one of Brass's most "intriguing" and "anarchistic" films, released before his shift to more controversial erotic works like collaborations between Vanessa Redgrave and Tinto Brass? The film won the Pasinetti Award for Best