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Parigi o cara (1962)
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.
Updated Jun 2 2020
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Cast
Gigi Reder
Il Portinaio
Fiorenzo Fiorentini
Claudio Nesti
Franca Valeri
Delia Nesti
Margherita Girelli
Grazia
Antonio Battistella
Antonio
Michèle Bardollet
La Française
Nunzia Fumo
Elvira
Crew
Nino Baragli
Editor
Vittorio Caprioli
Director
Vittorio Caprioli
Writer
Carlo Di Palma
Director of Photography
Fiorenzo Carpi
Music
Franca Valeri
Writer
Tonino Cervi
Producer
Renato Mainardi
Writer
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