Paris, My Love

Paris, My Love

1962
1h 46m
5.2

5.2/10

3 votes • View on IMDb
Comedy
Overview

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.

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Production Information

Production Companies
Ajace Produzioni Cinematografiche
Production Countries
Italy
Spoken Languages
Italian

Keywords

paris, france

Quick Facts

Original Title Parigi o cara
Release Date December 5, 1962
Status Released
Language IT
IMDb ID tt0056332

Cast

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

Nunzia Fumo
Nunzia Fumo

Elvira

Gigi Reder
Gigi Reder

Il Portinaio

Greta Gonda
Greta Gonda

Annamaria Ubaldi
Annamaria Ubaldi

Nando Cicero
Nando Cicero

Key Crew

Vittorio Caprioli
Director
Alessandro Jacovoni
Producer
Vittorio Caprioli
Screenplay
Franca Valeri
Screenplay
Renato Mainardi
Screenplay
Silvana Ottieri
Screenplay