Paris, My Love (1962)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1962-12-05
Runtime: 106 minutes
Director: Vittorio Caprioli
Top Cast
- Franca Valeri as Delia Nesti
- Vittorio Caprioli as Avallone
- Fiorenzo Fiorentini as Claudio Nesti
- Margherita Girelli as Grazia
- Antonio Battistella as Antonio
- Michèle Bardollet as La Française
- Nunzia Fumo as Elvira
- Gigi Reder as Il Portinaio
- Greta Gonda as
- Annamaria Ubaldi as
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