Paris, My Love

Paris, My Love (1962)

Comedy

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.

Director: Vittorio Caprioli
Writers: Vittorio Caprioli, Franca Valeri, Renato Mainardi, Silvana Ottieri.

Casts

	Franca Valeri as Delia Nesti
	Vittorio Caprioli as Avallone
	Fiorenzo Fiorentini as Claudio Nesti
	Margherita Girelli as Grazia
	Antonio Battistella as Antonio
	Michèle Bardollet as La Française
	Nunzia Fumo as Elvira
	Gigi Reder as Il Portinaio
	Greta Gonda as
	Annamaria Ubaldi as
	Nando Cicero as

Crew