Paris, My Love
Parigi O Cara is probably the most camp in the history of Italian cinema, certainly a favourite with the queer community who quote its lines by heart. Unique as it's the only film where Franca Valeri (now 90) is the unquestioned star, in the role of Delia, a snobbish, stingy prostitute who is moving to Paris looking for greener and more lucrative pastures. An anti-neorealist, amoral, almost abstract comedy, which anticipates Almodóvar, a ferocious, though gentle, non-moralistic portrayal of the 60's boom and its broken dreams. The dialogue between Delia and her brother (played by Fiorenzo Fiorentini), when he does (or does not) tell her he is a homosexual, is memorable, a primordial coming-out, a masterpiece of allusions. But what makes it one of the first examples of a film with a "gay point of view" is the approach: perceptive, non-conformist, caustically witty. A film ahead of its times, still unbeaten.
Year: 1962
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Ajace Produzioni Cinematografiche
Director: Vittorio Caprioli
Cast: Franca Valeri, Vittorio Caprioli, Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Margherita Girelli, Antonio Battistella, Michèle Bardollet
Crew: Vittorio Caprioli (Director), Alessandro Jacovoni (Producer), Carlo Di Palma (Director of Photography), Nino Baragli (Editor), Giulio Coltellacci (Production Design), Giulio Coltellacci (Costume Design)
Runtime: 106 minutes
Release: Dec 05, 1962
IMDb: 7.20/10 by 2 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Italy
Language: Italiano
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : paris, france
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