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Paris, My Love (1962)
Directed by Vittorio Caprioli
Comedy · 1h 46m
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.
Cast
Franca Valeri
Vittorio Caprioli
Fiorenzo Fiorentini
Antonio Battistella
Michèle Bardollet
Gigi Reder
Greta Gonda
Annamaria Ubaldi
Nando Cicero
Crew
- Director
- Vittorio Caprioli
- Screenplay
- Vittorio Caprioli, Franca Valeri, Renato Mainardi, Silvana Ottieri
- Director of Photography
- Carlo Di Palma
- Original Music Composer
- Fiorenzo Carpi
- Editor
- Nino Baragli
- Producer
- Alessandro Jacovoni
Details
- Original title
- Parigi o cara
- Release date
- 1962-12-05
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- Ajace Produzioni Cinematografiche