LIDO: Venice Film Festival – Hotel Courbet, the movie. Shown in These Phantoms 2 section, provocateur Italian filmmaker, Tinto Brass presented three short films. Hotel Courbet tells the story of a woman who lets herself go so she can assuage her erotic affliction. The provocative intimacy, violated unseen, is worth more for the burglar than any of the things he has stolen... The woman is played by Caterina Varzi and the burglar by Alberto Petrolini, both in the photo with the director, who is especially noted for his work in the erotic genre.