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Cast
Franca Valeri | As: Delia Nesti | |
Vittorio Caprioli | As: Avallone | |
Fiorenzo Fiorentini | As: Claudio Nesti | |
Margherita Girelli | As: Grazia | |
Antonio Battistella | As: Antonio |
Storyline
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
Franca Valeri |
Delia Nesti |
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Vittorio Caprioli |
Avallone |
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Fiorenzo Fiorentini |
Claudio Nesti |
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Margherita Girelli |
Grazia |
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Antonio Battistella |
Antonio |
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Michèle Bardollet |
La Française |
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Nunzia Fumo |
Elvira |
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Gigi Reder |
Il Portinaio |
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Greta Gonda |
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Annamaria Ubaldi |
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Nando Cicero |
Directed By
Vittorio Caprioli |
Director |
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Vanda Tuzzi |
Script Supervisor |
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Philippe Collin |
First Assistant Director |
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Nando Cicero |
First Assistant Director |
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Writing Credits
Vittorio Caprioli |
Screenplay |
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Franca Valeri |
Screenplay |
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Vittorio Caprioli |
Story |
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Renato Mainardi |
Screenplay |
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Silvana Ottieri |
Screenplay |
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Production Crew
Alessandro Jacovoni |
Producer |
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Alberto Giommarelli |
Production Manager |
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Vittorio Musy Glori |
Line Producer |
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Roberto Moretti |
Production Manager |
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Edited By
Nino Baragli |
Editor |
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Costume and Makeup
Giulio Coltellacci |
Costume Design |
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Goffredo Rocchetti |
Makeup Artist |
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Maria Teresa Corridoni |
Hairstylist |
Sound
Ferdinando Pescetelli |
Sound |
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Fiorenzo Carpi |
Original Music Composer |
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Alvaro Girolimotti |
Boom Operator |
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Visual Effects
Camera
Carlo Di Palma |
Director of Photography |
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Franco Romagnoli |
Key Grip |
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Alberto Spagnoli |
Assistant Camera |
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Dario Di Palma |
Camera Operator |
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Lighting
Elmiro Rubeo |
Gaffer |
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Art Department
Giulio Coltellacci |
Production Design |
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Other Crew
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