Paris, My Love (1962)

ALL 12/05/1962 (it) Comedy 106 Min
  • Release
    12/05/1962
  • Production
    Ajace Produzioni Cinematografiche
  • Rotten tomato
    72%
  • Original title
    Parigi o cara
  • Original language
    it
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Nino Baragli

    Editor



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Paris, My Love (1962) 106 Min

ALL 12/05/1962 (it)
Comedy
  • Release 12/05/1962
  • Production
    Ajace Produzioni Cinematografiche
  • Original title Parigi o cara
  • it
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Vittorio Caprioli

    Director

  2. Vittorio Caprioli

    Story

  3. Nino Baragli

    Editor

  4. Alessandro Jacovoni

    Producer