Storyline
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 & Crew
Franca Valeri
Delia Nesti
Lead
Vittorio Caprioli
Avallone
Fiorenzo Fiorentini
Claudio Nesti
MG
Margherita Girelli
Grazia
Antonio Battistella
Antonio
Michèle Bardollet
La Française
NF
Nunzia Fumo
Elvira
Gigi Reder
Il Portinaio
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Vittorio Caprioli's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Paris, My Love is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
