Paris, My Love
Paris, My Love

Paris, My Love

5.2

1 hr 46 min

1962-12-05

3

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.

Comedy

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Characters

Franca Valeri

Franca Valeri

Delia Nesti

Vittorio Caprioli

Vittorio Caprioli

Avallone

Fiorenzo Fiorentini

Fiorenzo Fiorentini

Claudio Nesti

Margherita Girelli

Margherita Girelli

Grazia

Antonio Battistella

Antonio Battistella

Antonio

Michèle Bardollet

Michèle Bardollet

La Française

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