
Paris, My Love
DEC 5, 1962 · 106 MIN · DIR. VITTORIO CAPRIOLI
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
Delia Nesti

Vittorio Caprioli
Avallone

Fiorenzo Fiorentini
Claudio Nesti
Margherita Girelli
Grazia

Antonio Battistella
Antonio

Michèle Bardollet
La Française
Nunzia Fumo
Elvira

Gigi Reder
Il Portinaio

Greta Gonda

Annamaria Ubaldi

Nando Cicero
Crew
Screenplay
Vittorio Caprioli
Screenplay
Franca Valeri
Screenplay
Renato Mainardi
Screenplay
Silvana Ottieri
Story
Vittorio Caprioli
Director of Photography
Carlo Di Palma
Editor
Nino Baragli
Original Music Composer
Fiorenzo Carpi
Producer
Alessandro Jacovoni











