Paris, My Love (Parigi o cara) 61 years old

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.

Credits

Gigi Reder as Il Portinaio

Fiorenzo Fiorentini as Claudio Nesti

Vittorio Caprioli as Avallone

Margherita Girelli as Grazia

Franca Valeri as Delia Nesti

Antonio Battistella as Antonio

Paris, My Love Cast

Name	Character
Gigi Reder He was 34, 70 years old when he died	as Il Portinaio
Fiorenzo Fiorentini He was 42, 82 years old when he died	as Claudio Nesti
Vittorio Caprioli He was 41, 68 years old when he died	as Avallone
Margherita Girelli	as Grazia
Franca Valeri She was 42, now 103 years old	as Delia Nesti
Antonio Battistella He was 50, 67 years old when he died	as Antonio

Paris, My Love Crew

Name	Department
Fiorenzo Carpi as Music. He was 44 (78) years old when He died	Sound
Vittorio Caprioli as Director. He was 41 (68) years old when He died	Directing
Vittorio Caprioli as Writer. He was 41 (68) years old when He died	Writing
Tonino Cervi as Producer. He was 33 (72) years old when He died	Production
Franca Valeri as Writer. She was 42 (now 103) years old	Writing
Renato Mainardi as Writer.	Writing

Paris, My Love (61 years)

Release day: Wednesday, December 05, 1962
Runtime: 106 minutes