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Paris, My Love

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 106 mins

Original Title

Parigi o Cara
  • Director: Vittorio Caprioli
  • Writer: Vittorio Caprioli; Franca Valeri; Renato Mainardi; Silvana Ottieri
  • Producer: Tonino Cervi; Alessandro Jacovoni

CGiii Comment

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.


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Cast & Characters

Franca Valeri as Delia Nesti;
Vittorio Caprioli as Avallone;
Fiorenzo Fiorentini as Claudio Nesti;
Margherita Girelli as Grazia;
Annamaria Ubaldi;
Antonio Battistella as Antonio;
Marc Doelnitz;
Michele Bardollet as La Francaise;
Elena Demerik;
Jacqueline Doyen;
Nunzia Fumo as Elvira;
Gisele Gallois;
Greta Gonda;
Pina Madonnari;
Marina Meucci;
Gigi Reder as Il Portinaio;
Lyta Roger;
Elisabetta Velinska