Paris, My Love (1962)
Overview
Parigi O Cara is probably the most camp in the history of Italian cinema, certainly a favourite with the GLBT 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.
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| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | it |
| Popularity | 0.0841 |
Directed By
Vittorio Caprioli
Crew
Giulio Coltellacci
Carlo Di Palma
Nino Baragli
Giulio Coltellacci
Vittorio Caprioli
Alessandro Jacovoni
Vittorio Caprioli
Franca Valeri
Goffredo Rocchetti
Alberto Giommarelli
Vittorio Caprioli
Vanda Tuzzi
Fiorenzo Carpi
Franco Romagnoli
Vittorio Musy Glori
Philippe Collin
Elmiro Rubeo
Renato Mainardi
Alberto Spagnoli
Silvana Ottieri
Nando Cicero
Alvaro Girolimotti
Roberto Moretti
Dario Di Palma
Maria Teresa Corridoni
TOP CAST
Franca Valeri
Delia Nesti
Vittorio Caprioli
Avallone
Fiorenzo Fiorentini
Claudio Nesti
Margherita Girelli
Grazia
Antonio Battistella
Antonio
Michèle Bardollet
La Française
Nunzia Fumo
Elvira
Gigi Reder
Il Portinaio
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