Paris, My Love (1962)
1h 46m
Running Time
December 5, 1962Release Date
Plot.
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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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Franca Valeri
Delia Nesti
Vittorio Caprioli
Avallone
Fiorenzo Fiorentini
Claudio Nesti
Antonio Battistella
Antonio
Margherita Girelli
Grazia
Michèle Bardollet
La Française
Renato Mainardi
Writer
Nunzia Fumo
Elvira
Silvana Ottieri
Writer
Gigi Reder
Il Portinaio
Tonino Cervi
Producer
Alessandro Jacovoni
Producer
Fiorenzo Carpi
Composer
Carlo Di Palma
Cinematographer
Nino Baragli
Editor
Philippe Collin
First Assistant Director
Details.
Release DateDecember 5, 1962
Original NameParigi o cara
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 46m
Filming LocationsParis, France · Europa, Italy
Genres
Wiki.
Parigi o cara (also known as Paris, My Love) is a 1962 Italian comedy drama film directed by Vittorio Caprioli.It was shown as part of a retrospective Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.